Item Carter MSS i.G.38 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. KV 62. Tomb of Tutankhamun: draft plan for sepulchral shrines and sarcophagus in situ in Burial chamber

1 sheet

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 hand-drawn draft plan of the sepulchral shrines (nos. 207, 237-239) and sarcophagus (no. 240) in situ in the Burial chamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Includes objects in situ between the third and fourth shrines, and magical figures in [sealed] niches in chamber's walls.
Also Carter's list of objects for inclusion on plan, written along the left side of sheet.
Used for compiling the final plan of Burial chamber, see Carter MSS i.G.31.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Scale not recorded
• 55.5 x 81.2 cm
• Ink and pencil on tracing paper
• Fragile
• Housed in archival polyester L-Velope

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

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