Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.A.119-121
Title
Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: sarcophagus lid, ostracon and decoration
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3 plates
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr. Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1955.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's notes on the tomb of Merneptah, KV 8, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Three plates with photographs of the red granite sarcophagus lid, an ostracon with sketches of the lid (Carter's description), and a wall scene with Merneptah before Re-Harakhti (TopBib i.2.507(3), scene 1). All from Carter, Howard 1905. 'Report of work done in Upper Egypt (1903-1904)'. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte plates ii-iv.
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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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Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.