Item Carter MSS i.G.53 - Thebes. Dra Abu el-Naga with El-Taraf: draft sketch general map

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.G.53

Title

Thebes. Dra Abu el-Naga with El-Taraf: draft sketch general map

Date(s)

  • 1914-1916 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 sheet

Context area

Name of creator

(1874-1939)

Biographical history

British Egyptologist. Born, London 1874. Died, London 1939. Privately educated. Employed by P. E. Newberry in 1891 working for the Archaeological Survey. Assisted in excavations for the Egypt Exploration Fund 1892-3, was with Petrie at Amarna in 1892, ... »

Name of creator

(1874-1952)

Biographical history

French architect and archaeologist. Born, Cairo 1874. Died, Cairo 1952. Trained at the national school of Arts et Métiers, Aix-en-Provence. Involved in the restoration and clearance of the Great Sphinx. Worked at many sites including Giza, Saqqara, ... »

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 and Émile Baraize's hand-drawn draft sketch map of the 'Northern end of the Theban Necropolis', covering the area between Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri) and Dra Abu el-Naga including El-Taraf.

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
  • 37.1 x 50.9 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.53A.

Publication note

  • Carter, Howard 1916. 'Report on the tomb of Zeser-ka-Ra Amenhetep I, discovered by the Earl of Carnarvon in 1914'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 3 (2/3), pl. xix ('Sketch Map of the Northern end of the Theban Necropolis').
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