File TAA i.2.13a - Notes: additional notes to the object inventory, 1922-1929

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TAA i.2.13a

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Notes: additional notes to the object inventory, 1922-1929

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  • c. 1922-1930 (Creation)

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11 rule-lined pages

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(1874-1939)

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(1879-1940)

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(1867-1945)

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(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)

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Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.

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Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.

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Howard Carter's additional notes to his notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930

  • Howard Carter's manuscript notes on objects or subjects
  • Supplements Carter's notebook, see TAA i.2.13
  • Includes notes on:
    • 2 pages with notes on the magical figures from niches in the wall of sarcophagus chamber, Carter 257-260
    • 2 pages with notes relating to the sarcophagus, Carter 240, with copies of texts extracted from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906. Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822)
    • 2 pages with notes on gilded wood emblems, Carter object 196, and the clay brick stands for these emblems, Carter 198a
    • 1 page with notes on ritual emblems in the burial chamber and the disturbance of these objects by tomb robbers
    • 1 page with notes on beads and part of necklace dropped by tomb robbers, Carter 172
    • 1 page with general notes on Anubis animal, i.e. jackal
    • 1 page with a list and photograph? number: gloves, general view of the tomb, carved ivory box, and head of the king
    • 1 page with a list of Tutankhamun object numbers

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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

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  • Not currently available online (status 26/07/2022)

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  • Originally housed inside notebook, see TAA i.2.13

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