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Hathor-cow couch outside Tutankhamun's tomb, postcard

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken on 24 January 1923.
  • Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).

Hathor-cow couch outside Tutankhamun's tomb, postcard

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken on 24 January 1923.
  • Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).

Hippopotamus head from couch (137), cigarette card

  • Cigarette card issued by Wills's Cigarettes from the set titled: 'Wonders of the Past: A Series of 50' (1926).
  • No. 12: 'Treasure from Tutankhamen's Tomb'.
  • Painted version based on Harry Burton photograph P0166.
  • View of one of the hippopotamus heads from the couch (137) of Tutankhamun, found in the Antechamber of the King's tomb.

Burton, Harry

Howard Carter examining the innermost coffin, cigarette card

  • Cigarette card (2 copies) issued by Churchman's Cigarettes from the set titled: 'Treasure Trove: A Series of 50' (1937).
  • No. 28: 'The Gold Coffin of Tut-Ankh-Amen'.
  • Painted version based on Harry Burton photograph P0770.
  • Howard Carter and an Egyptian team member examine the lid of Tutankhamun's innermost coffin (255). This coffin was made of solid gold, with incised decoration inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones.

Burton, Harry

Howard Carter's diary for 1922

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1922

  • Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1922
  • Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations
  • Contains the first records on the tomb of Tutankhamun and its discovery
  • Significant dates include:
    • 4th November 1922: "First steps of tomb found"
    • 5th November 1922: "Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramses VI Investigated same & found seals intact."
    • 26th November 1922: "Open second doorway about 2 4 5 pm. Advised Engelbach."

Carter, Howard

Howard Carter's diary for 1923

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1923

  • Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1923
  • Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations

Carter, Howard

Howard Carter's diary for 1924

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1924

  • Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1924
  • Notes on Carter's activities in Egypt in early 1924, which include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and lecture venues and dates. Also contains a few notes on negotiations with British officials and the Egyptian authorities, between December 1924 and January 1925, regarding the dispute and closure of Tutankhamun's tomb.
  • Also entries for:
    • Lecture tour, North America, 12 April (depart London) to 2 July (depart New York).
    • Some lectures, England, October to early November.
    • Lecture, Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, 24 November.
    • Lecture, Madrid, Trabro Fontainalla, 26 November.
  • Departed for Egypt, 10 December.

Carter, Howard

Journal: The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen iii (ch. 1 and 2), Madrid lecture, and damp in the tomb

Howard Carter's 'Notes upon Objects in the Store-room [Treasury], 1926-1927', forming parts of chapters 1 and 2 in volume iii of The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Madrid lecture, and notes on damp in the tomb

  • 81 numbered pages
  • Carter's manuscript drafts (partial) for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 1 and 2.
  • Manuscript notes for a lecture in Madrid, May 1928.
  • Manuscript notes regarding the 'Existence of damp in the tomb'.

Carter, Howard

Journal: 1922-1925 (1st to 3rd seasons)

Tutankhamun excavation journal 1922-1925, and miscellaneous notes

  • 148 numbered pages
  • Manuscript entries, with some drawings and pages with affixed newspaper cuttings

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1925, covering the first-third seasons

  • Most entries are by Carter
  • Entries between December 5th and 27th, 1922 (pages 43 to 47) are by Arthur Mace

Also, Carter's miscellaneous notes on Tutankhamun and other subjects:

  • Notes on Synopsis
  • The Legend of Osiris
  • Nomenclature of certain Districts of the Theban Necropolis
  • Records of Royal Tomb Robberies
  • The First Theban Kingdom
  • Protocol of Tut-Ankh-Amen

Newspaper cuttings

  • The Times
    • 31 May 1923
    • 23 July 1923
    • 24 July 1923
    • 5 January 1924
    • 7 January 1924
    • 12 February 1924
    • 14 February 1924

Carter, Howard

Journal: 1923-1924 (2nd season, compiled by A. C. Mace)

Arthur C. Mace's journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1923-1924, covers part of the second season.

  • 32 numbered pages
  • Manuscript (Mace)
  • Complements Howard Carter's journal for the same dates. See TAA i.2.1

Mace, Arthur Cruttenden

Journal: 1925-1926 (4th season)

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1925-1926, covering the fourth season.

  • 111 numbered pages
  • Manuscript (Carter)

Carter, Howard

Journal: 1926-1930 (5th-9th seasons)

Howard Carter's excavation journal, 1926 to 1930, covering the fifth to ninth seasons.

  • 65 numbered pages
  • Mostly manuscript (Carter) with some typescript pages
  • Includes a note dated May 1926, in which Carter notes a sighting of a black jackal at Thebes.

Carter, Howard

Journal: inventory, objects sent to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 1922-1929

Tutankhamun journal with an inventory of objects sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, between 1922 and 1929

  • Pages 1-17
    • Arthur Mace's manuscript records
    • Mace's heading on the title page (page 0), "Tut-Ankh-Amun"
    • Mace's heading on page 1, "Catalogue of objects sent to Cairo Museum. Season 1922-1923"
    • Mace's final entry, "34 packages containing 89 boxes", and signed by A.C.M. (Arthur C. Mace) and H.C. (Howard Carter), dated "12 May 1923."
  • Page 18
    • Unidentified hand, manuscript notes, French
    • French manuscript heading, "Liste des Caisses parties de la Vallée des Rois le 1er Avril, a 10 h. 15 a.m."
    • Carter's manuscript annotation at top of the page, "Cases and antiquities removed by the Service des Antiquities Spring 1924 from No. 15 and No. 4 Biban el Maluke"
  • Pages 19-21
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Carter's final entry, "Nineteen cases handed over to M. Baraize for transport to Cairo March 31st 1925. Howard Carter [signature]. These cases were carried by hand and(?) to River Early morn of the 1st April"
  • Page 22
    • Carter's manuscript column headings, but no entries
  • Page 23
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Carter's final entry, "The above objects enclosed in sixteen cases (one of which No. 16 to be brought by Mr. Carter). Howard Carter [signature] April 16th 1927."
  • Page 25
    • Typewritten list affixed to page
    • Cases "XXIII" to "XXXVIII"
    • All objects are from the Treasury
    • Not dated
  • Pages 26-32
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Objects are from the Treasury and Annexe
    • "List of cases of antiquities sent to the Cairo Museum March [day not entered] th., 1929."
    • Carter's final entry, "Ninety cases of antiquities as for above list. delivered to the Chief Inspector for transport March ... 1929. H.C."

Journal: object inventory, 1922-1929

Notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930

  • 25 numbered items: 23 pages (openings) and 2 loose notes
  • Manuscript records
  • List of object numbers with the schedule for recording, conservation and photography and crating for transportation to Cairo, not comprehensive
  • Data is arranged in columns with the following headings:
    • 'No.' (i.e. Carter's Tutankhamun object number)
    • 'Brought to No. 15' (i.e. KV 15, the tomb of Seti II, used as the 'laboratory' during the excavation)
    • 'Treated'
    • 'Recorded'
    • 'Photographed'
    • 'Packed'
    • 'Box No.'
  • Pages 1-8
    • Compiled by Arthur Mace
    • Object numbers 1 to 171
    • Dated '1922-1923'
  • Pages 8-10
    • Object numbers 172 to 220
    • Not dated, presumably 1923
  • Pages 11-14
    • Object numbers 172-253 (sic) (numbers 172-220 repeated)
    • Titled and dated 'Sepulchral Chamber Nov. 1923' on page 11
  • Pages 15-19
    • Object numbers 253 to 260
    • Dated 'Oct. 1925'
  • Note 19A
    • Object numbers 257-260 (magical figures from niches in wall of sarcophagus chamber)
    • Not dated
  • Pages 20-21
    • Object numbers 261-265
    • Titled and dated 'Sequence Nos and Notes - Store Room (1926-1927)' on page 20
    • All entries on page 20 crossed through (cancelled)
  • Page 22
    • Object numbers 339, 340, 343, 353, 359, 360, 374, 385, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410, 417, 420, 421, 423, 435, 448, 449, 479, 480, 482, 483, 485, 520, 524, 578, 579, 583, 588, 603, 604, 620 (bowl)
    • Titled and dated 'Photos required - 1928-29.'
  • Note 22A
    • 'Note for Burton'
    • 'A set of prints required for register: Nos 1135 to 1150.'
  • Pages 23-
    • Lists of object types with object numbers
    • 'Arms': Nos. 582 (scimitar), 620 (scimitar), 620 (boomerangs, ivory)
    • 'Head-rests': Nos. 403a, 403b, 403c, 403d
    • 'Misc. objects': Nos. 469 (silver vase), 620 (castanets, ivory), 620 (dog bronze), 620 (small box, wood)
    • 'Faience objects': Nos. 399 a & b
    • 'Ivory inlaid chair': Nos. 126, 131 (both numbers crossed through, i.e. cancelled)

Mace, Arthur Cruttenden

Loading objects onto boat, photograph

  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Taken 15 May 1923.
  • Scene on the bank of Nile, showing Egyptian team members loading packing cases containing Tutankhamun's objects on to a boat, in preparation for their transport by boat to Cairo.
  • Photograph probably The Times.

Lord Carnarvon at Castle Carter II, photograph

  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph probably taken in late 1922 or early 1923.
  • George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon, standing in the doorway of 'Castle Carter', Howard Carter's house at Elwet el-Diban located at the entrance to the wadi leading to the Valley of the Kings.

Lunch in the Valley of the Kings: view 1, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photograph was probably taken by Lord Carnarvon in mid-February 1923.
  • Lunch in the Valley of the Kings (KV4, Ramesses IV). From left to right, an unidentified person, Harry Burton, Alfred Lucas, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Howard Carter, and another unidentified person.
  • From a sequence of photographs showing the same event.

Lunch in the Valley of the Kings: view 2, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photograph was probably taken by Lord Carnarvon in mid-February 1923.
  • Lunch in the Valley of the Kings (KV4, Ramesses IV). From left to right, James Henry Breasted, Harry Burton, Alfred Lucas, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Howard Carter, and Alan Gardiner.
  • From a sequence of photographs showing the same event.
  • Taken at the same time as Burton photograph P1544.

Magazine cartoon: Tutankhamun-related

  • Cartoon from Punch magazine referencing the tomb of Tutankhamun.
  • "TUTANKH-AMEN IN DOWNING STREET."
  • "Harressed Phantom (outside No. 10). "THIS IS THE PLACE FOR ME. VERY PEACEFUL AFTER MY TOMB."
  • From Punch, or The London Charivari, 31 January 1923, page 99.

Manoeuvering a chariot wheel out of Tutankhamun's tomb

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • Egyptian team members manoeuvering a tray loaded with a chariot wheel up the rock-cut steps leading out of Tutankhamun's tomb. The wheel is from one of the four chariots found in the Antechamber.

Members of the Tutankhamun excavation team riding donkeys: view 1, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer, probably in early 1923.
  • A donkey procession in the Valley of the Kings.
    At the front, riding sidesaddle is Howard Carter, followed by Arthur Mace (wearing a dark hat). The man partially obscured by Mace is Alfred Lucas. At the back, riding the last donkey is Arthur Callender.
  • Donkeys were the main form of transport to and from Tutankhamun's tomb.
  • TAA ii.6.62 almost certainly records the same event.

Members of the excavation team riding donkeys: view 2, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer, probably in early 1923.
  • A donkey procession in the Valley of the Kings.
  • Riding donkeys, from the left, Alfred Lucas (white hat), Arthur Callender (also white hat), Howard Carter (medium coloured hat with dark band), and Arthur Mace (dark hat).
  • Donkeys were the main form of transport to and from Tutankhamun's tomb.
  • TAA ii.6.61 almost certainly records the same event.

Members of the xcavation team in car, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer, probably in early 1923.
  • Photograph of some of the excavation team seated in the 'First Ford in the desert'.
  • Taken outside Castle Carter II.
  • Front seats, from left, Howard Carter and chauffeur. Back seats, from left, Arthur Mace, Harry Burton, and Alfred Lucas.

Merchandise pamphlet

Merchandise pamphlet for the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition at the British Museum in 1972.

  • 1 printed, gatefold pamphlet with a list of merchandise, some items illustrated with line drawings
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