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Carter MSS i.D.209
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- 31-12-1916 (Creation)
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1 grid-lined page
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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 description of a shallow valley with remains of Coptic buildings, between Wâdi Qubbânet el-Qirûd [Biban el-Gurud] and Wâdi el-Gharbi. Dated by Carter 31-12-1916.
Carter's transcription of graffiti, including cartouche of Queen Ahmosi Nefertari.
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 scan in Griffith Institute.
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- 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).