Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.E.294-305
Title
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 folder containing 1 envelope, 11 tracings and 1 photograph
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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 transcriptions of inscriptions from jars, late 18th Dynasty?, found in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The original envelope containing this group annotated by Carter 'Inscriptions upon pithoi found Biban El Maluke (some of the pithoi were bound with linen others sealed with impressions of the seal "jackal over Nine Prisoners"). (? late XVIIIth). Taken by Winlock fr. N.Y. Museum.' Not clear whether 'taken' applies to the tracings, photograph, or both.
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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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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.