Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS vi.2.12
Title
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): [The Tomb of the Horse]
Date(s)
- c. 1930-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 notebook
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
- 13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
- Carter's annotated page numbers, "25"-"35"
- All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
- Continuation of Carter MSS vi.2.14.
- Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 102-111): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"
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
- Grey card cover
- Ruled pages
- 20.3 x 16.4 x 0.3 cms
- Printed on front cover:
- "The Ludgate, No. 6"
- Excercise
- Book
- Name.......................
- Class........................
- School......................
- Date.........................
- Printed on back cover:
- [Tables]
- Sterling Money Table; Avoirdupois Weight; Capacity
- Length; Time; Area
- Multiplication Table (Extended)
- Days in the Month; Numeration Table; Arithmetial Signs
- Troy Weight; Metric System; Metric System
- W. STRAKER LTD.,
- STATIONERS & PRINTERS
- LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. 4, AND BRANCHES.
- ESTABLISHED 1863.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
- Formerly Carter notebook 18.
- Formerly catalogued as "Notebook containing autobiographical notes regarding Carter's excavations at Thebes".