Item Carter MSS i.C.176 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 2.258 (Cairo 46707) - photograph

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.C.176

Nadpis

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 2.258 (Cairo 46707) - photograph

Date(s)

  • c. 1920-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 photograph

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 photograph of an alabaster vessel [2.258], now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 46707.
Part of Carter's records for the cache of Merenptah and Ramesses II vessels found near the entrance of KV 8, Merneptah, 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 scan in Griffith Institute.

Publication note

  • See TopBib i2.509.