Item Carter MSS i.C.191 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 8.264: notes and sketches

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.C.191

Title

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 8.264: notes and sketches

Date(s)

  • c. 1920-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 page

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 typewritten record with sketches for an alabaster vessel of Ramesses II [8.264], present location not known.
Part of Carter's records for the cache of Merenptah and Ramesses II vessels found near the entrance of KV 8, Merneptah, ... »

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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.