The Archive / Item 3

R.1908–09 / 3

Photographic Plates I–XII: The Ravensworth Expedition, 1908–9 (“Portfolio II”)

Twelve collotype plates covering the excavation site, camp, the clearance of Tomb R.14, and the stela in general and detail views — including Plate X, an enlarged view of the bow device of the middle register, and Plate XI, the lower register bearing the three lines of text Prof. Bramhall attempted to read.

Physical
14 pp.; grey-buff wrapper stock, distinct from the Report's cream; A4 trim; issued unbound with prefatory note
Credits
Negatives by C. E. Latham; collotype by Chalmers & Wray, London
Date
1909; issued to subscribers of the second class and upwards; not for sale separately
Relation
Captions repeat, word for word, those printed at §43 of the Annual Report (/1). Plate X is the working image referenced again, unretouched, within Item /4.
Plate X: “the middle register, enlarged four diameters from a negative taken in oblique light.”

The same negative underlies the Instrument Room's working print.