Item Carter MSS i.C.208 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 13.269 (Carnarvon collection) - hieratic texts

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.C.208

Title

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 8. Tomb of Merneptah: Cache of vessels. Vessel 13.269 (Carnarvon collection) - hieratic texts

Date(s)

  • c. 1920-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 page with affixed tracing

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 transcriptions/tracings of hieratic texts on an alabaster vessel of Merneptah [13.269], formerly in Lord Carnarvon collection, then Bloomfield Hills MI, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 1940.32, then C. Pankow collection, and at Sotheby's ... »

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.