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Preparing one side of the cow-headed couch for transport

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was taken on 24th January 1923, the day Carter recorded this couch being moved; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly sometime in the 1920s.
  • Howard Carter (left), assisted by Walter Hauser (right), manoeuvring the right side of the cow-headed couch (Carter 73) into a packing case in preparation for its transfer to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of Sethos II (KV15).

Transporting boxes containing preserved meat

  • 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 excavation team members transport some of Tutankhamun's food provisions from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15) in the Valley of the Kings.
  • Forty-eight boxes (Carter 62) containing choice cuts of meat and whole geese were prepared to accompany the King's burial and were placed in a neat pile beneath one of the ceremonial couches in the Antechamber. They were some of the first items Howard Carter saw when he looked into the tomb for the first time on 26th November 1922, recording them as "a heap of large curious white oviform boxes".

Moving an ornamental vessel

  • 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 transporting one of Tutankhamun's elaborate vessels (Carter 57) from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15). The large vessel, carved from a single piece of Egyptian alabaster, originally contained unguent, its contents stolen by the tomb robbers who entered the tomb in antiquity. The vessel's body is flanked by openwork side pieces incorporating bound papyrus and lotus flowers, symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt and its unification, as well as representing the King's sovereignty. The vessel's body is decorated with Tutankhamun's cartouches; the incised decoration has been filled with black pigment.

Carrying a chest up the tomb's rockcut staircase

  • 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.
  • Two Egyptian team members carrying a white chest (Carter 50) up the rock-cup steps leading out of Tutankhamun's tomb, with Howard Carter assisting (head visible behind the left shoulder of the man at the front). This chest contained many items of Tutankhamun's wardrobe.

The team transporting two trays

  • 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.
  • Two Egyptian team members, accompanied by Howard Carter [wearing hat and waistcoat, left foreground], carry trays containing objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb while being pursued by tourists. The man on the left carries a decorated box (Carter 44), probably a footstool or stool, while the tray conveyed by the man contains two items, perhaps a box lid and a vessel (not identified). The objects are being transported to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

Transporting a basket and a box

  • 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.
  • An Egyptian team member, accompanied by Arthur Callendar [right, foreground] and an armed guard [centre, background], carries a tray containing a reed and papyrus box (Carter 42) and an ornamental box made of redwood inlaid with ebony and ivory. The objects are being transported from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

Egyptian team transporting the 'candlesticks'

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

Egyptian team transporting chests

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • Members of the Egyptian team manoeuvring a large carrying tray out through the entrance to the modern enclosure wall constructed shortly after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. The team are carrying two black shrine-like boxes (Carter 37) and (Carter 38) and a gabled-roofed box (Carter 32), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory.

Egyptian team transporting food boxes, postcard

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph was probably taken in early 1923, the production date of the postcard is not known, but almost certainly 1920s.
  • Postcard series: 'Exploitation of Tout-Ankh-Amon's Tomb'.
  • Postcard misprinted on both sides.
  • Members of the Egyptian team carrying a tray with food boxes (Carter 62) from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb to the Laboratory.

Catalogue for James Deardon Holmes's Egypt photographs, PDF

  • PDF with scans of four typewritten pages from the Holmes Stereoscopic Catalogue typescript with the section listing photographs taken by Deardon Holmes in Egypt including the Tutankhamun photographs.
  • Complement to a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925, see TAA ii.6.65-70. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Holmes, James Deardon

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 6, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '267.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 5, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '266.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 4, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '265.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 3, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '264.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 2, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '263.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 1, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '262.'
  • Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.

Transporting two boxes to the laboratory, postcard

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Photograph taken in early 1923, date of postcard not known.
  • Captioned 'Exploitation of Tout-Ankh-Amon's Tomb'.
  • Howard Carter (right) and Arthur Callender (left) carrying a tray of objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb. Objects include two footstools (78) and (84) and a rounded box of ebony and redwood veneer (79).

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.

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 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.

The Tutankhamun team, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer.
  • Original image was created probably in early 1923.
  • Photograph was taken in the Valley of the Kings.
  • Members of the Tutankhamun excavation team.
  • From left to right, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Harry Burton, Howard Carter, Alan Gardiner, and Alfred Lucas.

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.

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.

Alfred Lucas working on objects, digital image

  • Digital image
  • Original negative was probably created in 1923.
  • Photograph of Alfred Lucas working on a group of small objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the laboratory set up in KV15 (Sethos II).
  • The photograph was probably taken by the The Times photographer.

Chair (91), digital image

  • Digital image, original image perhaps created by Walter Segal or a Cairo, Egyptian Museum, photographer.
  • The original negative was created in the early 1930s.
  • 'Studio' image of the so-called throne of Tutankhamun (91).
  • Part of the same sequence of images within the Segal MSS.

Segal, Walter

Transporting one of the chariots (121), photograph

  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Taken in early 1923.
  • Egyptian team members transporting a chariot body (121) from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV 15, Sethos II).
  • The same tray is shown in TAA iii.6.52-53.
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