Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.C.159-162
Title
Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 54. Embalmer's cache of Tutankhamun: records
Date(s)
- c. 1908-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
4 pages
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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.
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Scope and content
Howard Carter's manuscript records for the embalmer's cache of Tutankhamun, found in 1908 by Theodore Davis and Edward Ayrton in KV 54, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Notes on some of the objects, extracted from Davis' publication.
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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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Publication note
- See Davis, Theodore M. (ed.) 1912. The tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou.
- TopBib i2.586.