Item Carter MSS i.G.50 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings: plan of the south branch of the East Valley, Carnarvon excavations 1920-1921

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.G.50

Title

Thebes. Valley of the Kings: plan of the south branch of the East Valley, Carnarvon excavations 1920-1921

Date(s)

  • 1920-1921 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 grid-lined sheet

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 hand-drawn draft map, with measurements, for the Carnarvon excavations, 1920-1921, south branch, East Valley, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Shows entrances to tombs: KV 32, KV 37 and KV 42, and includes the remains of the burial of Sennufer ... »

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

  • Scale not recorded
  • 45 x 65.5 cm
  • Fragile
  • Housed in archival polyester L-Velope

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

Related units of description

Used for compiling map Carter i.G.51.

Publication note

Notes area

Note

  • Catalogued previously in error as 'Western Valley. KV 20, Hatshepsut.'