Item Carter MSS i.E.38-118 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings: copies of inscriptions from ostraca

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Carter MSS i.E.38-118

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Thebes. Valley of the Kings: copies of inscriptions from ostraca

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  • c. 1899-1922 (Creation)

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80 index-cards and 2 index card-dividers

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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 manuscript card-index with transcriptions and notes for texts from ostraca featuring royal and private names, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Many texts were copied from Daressy's publication.

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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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Not scanned by Griffith Institute.

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  • See Daressy, G. 1901. Ostraca: Nos 25001-25385. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.

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