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Carter MSS i.E.3-291
Title
Thebes. Valley of the Kings: copies of inscriptions, royal and private names, and objects of interest
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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289 index cards
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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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Scope and content
Howard Carter's manuscript card-index with transcriptions and notes for monuments and objects from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Records royal and private names, and objects of interest.
Most copied from publications including:
- Newberry, P. E. 1906. Scarabs.
- Northampton, W. C., Marquis of, W. Spiegelberg and P. E. Newberry 1908. Report on some excavations in the Theban necropolis during the winter of 1898-9.
- Gardiner, A. H. and A. E. P. Weigall 1913. A topographical catalogue of the private tombs of Thebes.
- 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.
- Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1914).
- Newberry, P. E. 1900. The life of Rekhmara, vezîr of Upper Egypt under Thothmes III and Amenhetep II (circa BC 1471-1448).
- Legrain, G. 1908. Répertoire généalogique et onomastique du Musée du Caire: monuments de la XVIIe et de la XVIIIe dynastie.
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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 exclude index cards.