Item Carter MSS i.F.123 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: photograph lion-hunt ostracon

Carter MSS i.F.123

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.F.123

Title

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: photograph lion-hunt ostracon

Date(s)

  • c. 1920-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

2 photographs (1 is a duplicate)

Context area

Name of creator

(1874-1939)

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 photograph of the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, ... »

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.