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

2 photographs (1 is a duplicate)

This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.

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, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• See https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544076