Item Carter MSS i.G.81 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings and South-West Valleys (South of Valley of the Queens): map showing positions of graffiti found by Carter

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Carter MSS i.G.81

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Thebes. Valley of the Kings and South-West Valleys (South of Valley of the Queens): map showing positions of graffiti found by Carter

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  • c. 1899-1922 (Creation)

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1 grid-lined sheet

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Name of creator

Carter, Howard
(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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Scope and content

Howard Carter's hand-drawn map recording the positions of some of the graffiti found by him. Includes graffiti located in the South-West Valleys (south of the Valley of the Queens), and around the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

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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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      • Scale '8 cms to the 1000 ms'
      • 43.4 x 64.8 cm
      • Housed in archival polyester L-Velope

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      Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

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      Publication note

      • See Carter, Howard 1917. 'A tomb prepared for queen Hatshepsuit and other recent discoveries at Thebes'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 4 (2/3), 107-114 pl. xix (map).
      • See Spiegelberg, Wilhelm 1921. Ägyptische und andere Graffiti (Inschriften und Zeichnungen) aus der thebanischen Nekropolis, Nos. 149-739.
      • See Černý, Jaroslav 1956. Graffiti hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques de la nécropole thébaine: nos 1060 à 1405.
      • See TopBib i2.590.
      • See TopBib i2.593-594.

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      Note in the former Carter MSS catalogue, 'Numbers on map do not appear to correspond with numbers of graffiti from group Carter MSS i.D'.

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