Item Carter MSS i.C.146 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 55. Probably Amenophis IV (Akhenaten): canopic jars

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.C.146

Title

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 55. Probably Amenophis IV (Akhenaten): canopic jars

Date(s)

  • c. 1907-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

3 pages

Context area

Name of creator

(1874-1939)

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 annotated typescript records for the four canopic jars found in KV 55, probably of Amenophis IV (Akhenaten), Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Publication note

  • See Davis, Theodore M. (ed.) 1910. The tomb of Queen Tîyi.
  • See TopBib i2.566.