Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.A.69-72
Nadpis
Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 47. Tomb of Siptah
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 folder containing 1 index card divider, 2 pages and 1 off-print
Context area
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(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 records for the tomb of Siptah, KV 47, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Includes Carter's hand-copied extracts from Davis, T. 1908. Tomb of Siptah, and an annotated offprint of Burton, H. in MMA Bulletin xi (1916), pp. 13-18 with plan and fig.
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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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Publication note
- See Davis, Theodore M. (ed.) 1908. The tomb of Siphtah; the monkey tomb and the gold tomb.
- See Burton, Henry 1916. 'The late Theodore M. Davis's excavations at Thebes in 1912-13: I. The excavation of the rear corridors and sepulchral chamber of the tomb of King Siphtah'. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 11 (1), 13-18 7 figs [plan, ills].
- See TopBib i2.564-565.