Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.E.125-137
Title
Thebes. Valley of the Kings: copies of inscriptions from Papyrus Amherst
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
13 index-cards and 1 index-card divider
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
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 manuscript card-index with transcriptions and notes for texts from the Amherst Papyrus. Texts were probably copied from Newberry's publication.
Part of Carter's records for monuments and objects from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Records royal and private names, and objects of interest.
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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.
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Not scanned by Griffith Institute.
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Publication note
- See Newberry, P. E. 1899. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., at Didlington Hall, Norfolk: with an appendix on a Coptic papyrus.