Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS ii.1-7
Title
Meir. Tombs. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: general records for site and necropolis
Date(s)
- c. 1918-1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 box and 1 envelope
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's manuscript general records for Meir.
Includes:
- Notes on the site
- Previous excavations
- Deities and festivals recorded in tomb texts
- Nomarchs and princes recorded in tomb texts
- Wives, princes, princesses and private names recorded in tomb texts
- Titles and attributes recorded in tomb texts
- Description of necropolis and definitions of cemetery groups A-E and O-P
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Publication note
- See Blackman, Aylward M. 1914-1953. The rock tombs of Meir, vols. i-vi.
- See TopBib iv.247-258.