Item Carter MSS i.A.119-121 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: sarcophagus lid, ostracon and decoration

3 plates

This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr. Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1955.

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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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• See Carter MSS i.A.117 for pages 116-119 from the same article.