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Carter MSS i.D.175
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Thebes. South-West Valleys: graffiti, Carter's notes on geological terminology and Arabic equivilents
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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2 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 notes on geological terminology, also some Arabic equivalents and some of the names for the Valleys.
Part of Carter's records on graffiti from the 'valley south of tombs of the queens', and 'near the cliff (south) tomb of Hatshepsut'. Wâdi Sikket Tâqet Zaid, Wâdi Qubbânet el-Qirûd [Biban el-Gurud], Wâdi el-Gharbi and Wâdi Sikket el-Agaia, Thebes.
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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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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
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Publication note
- See Carter, Howard 1917. 'A tomb prepared for queen Hatshepsuit and other recent discoveries at Thebes'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 4 (2/3), 107-114 pl. xix (map).
- See Černý, Jaroslav 1956. Graffiti hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques de la nécropole thébaine: nos 1060 à 1405.
- See TopBib i2.593-594.