Item Carter MSS i.F.80-82 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: Ostraca - Site A, 3 ostraca

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Carter MSS i.F.80-82

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Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: Ostraca - Site A, 3 ostraca

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  • c. 1917-1922 (Creation)

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1 page, and 2 grid-lined pages with 3 affixed photographs

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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 notes with photographs of 3 ostraca found by Harry Burton in 1914 in the upper stratum of rubbish of Site A, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Part of Carter's records on ostraca from Thebes found during Carnarvon excavations.

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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.

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