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Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Cemeteries: tomb entrance, photographs and note

Howard Carter's photographs, excavation of, and view of, one pit tomb at Site 14, perhaps tomb 24, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes. Tombs constructed below and on top of the Valley Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.
Also, Carter's manuscript note from original housing for Carter MSS i.J.231-234.

Press cuttings

Press cuttings collected by Howard Carter, some mentioning Carter's archaeological work, including Tutankhamun, and Carter manuscript note from original housing.

  • Carter MSS vi.7.1.1
    • The Times Educational Supplement
    • 6 July 1929
    • Pages 307-8
    • 'Side Windows on history' (from a correspondent)
    • Mentions Carter
  • Carter MSS vi.7.1.2
    • Liverpool Post
    • 20 June 1929
    • 'A cosmetic 3,000 year old'
    • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb (see following)
  • Carter MSS vi.7.1.3
    • Daily Chronicle
    • 20 June 1929
    • 'Cosmetic from Luxor Tomb. | Shown to women in London. | After 3,300 years.'
    • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb, analysed by Mr A. Chaston Chapman and Dr H. J. Plenderleith (see preceding)
  • Carter MSS vi.7.1.4
    • Morning Post
    • 8 January 1929
    • 'The King's Epiphany gifts
    • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter
  • Carter MSS vi.7.1.5
    • The Times (?)
    • Summer 1930
    • 'The Royal Academy | I.—Pictures and the public | A varied exhibition (By our Art Critic)'
    • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter

Thebes. Dra Abu el-Naga. Tomb ANB. Amenophis I and Ahmosi Nefertere: letter from Gardiner to Carter

Letter from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter concerning Carter's draft of the article for the tomb, later published in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 3 (2/3). Gardiner is convinced that the tomb belongs to Amenophis I and offers alternative translations for its location as recorded in Papyrus Abbott [British Museum 10221; TM 13222]. Part of Carter's records on tomb ANB, Amenophis I and Ahmosi Nefertere, Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 62. Tomb of Tutankhamun: scene from front of box (no. 551), Nina de Garis Davies drawing

Nina de Davies' annotated drawing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Probably used for Davies tracing, see Carter MSS i.G.44C.

Davies, Anna (Nina) Macpherson

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 62. Tomb of Tutankhamun: scene from front of box (no. 551), Nina de Garis Davies tracing

Nina de Davies' tracing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Probably traced from Davies drawing, see Carter MSS i.G.44B.

Davies, Anna (Nina) Macpherson

Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: report

Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.
Group includes:

  • "Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
  • Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
  • The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
    • General description
    • History
    • Excavations
    • Antiquities

18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.

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