Item Carter MSS i.C.159-162 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 54. Embalmer's cache of Tutankhamun: records

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Carter MSS i.C.159-162

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Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 54. Embalmer's cache of Tutankhamun: records

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  • c. 1908-1922 (Creation)

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4 pages

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(1874-1939)

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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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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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  • See Davis, Theodore M. (ed.) 1912. The tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou.
  • TopBib i2.586.

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