Item Carter MSS i.J.199 - Thebes. Deir el-Bahri. Valley Temple of Hatshepsut: ostraca, photograph

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.J.199

Title

Thebes. Deir el-Bahri. Valley Temple of Hatshepsut: ostraca, photograph

Date(s)

  • c. 1907-1911 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

3 photographs

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 photograph of three ostraca: two with hieratic inscriptions the other with a sketch of a gazelle. Found during the Carnarvon-Carter excavations of the (destroyed) Valley Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
Includes photograph cuttings.

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.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

Publication note

  • See TopBib ii2.423-424.
  • See Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911, p. 32 [1, 2] (probably these).