Parte Carter MSS i.J.318a-389 - Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: records

2 Western Manuscript folders and 2 notebooks

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 records for the 1915 and 1917-1922 Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

• 1st season, 8 Feb. to 8 March 1915: Tomb of Amenophis III, KV 22.
• 2nd season, 1 Dec. 1917 to 2 Feb. 1918: Valley between the tombs of Ramesses II (KV 7) and Ramesses VI (KV 9) ("Site A").
• 3rd season, 19 Dec. 1919 to 16 March 1920: Valley between the tombs of Ramesses II (KV 7) and Ramesses VI (KV 9) ("Site A"), and in the vicinity of the tombs of Tuthmosis I (KV 38) and Ramesses IV (KV 2).
• 4th season, 1 Dec. 1920 to 3 March 1921: Valley between the tombs of Ramesses II (KV 7) and Ramesses VI (KV 9) ("Site A"), and in the vicinity of the tombs of Ramesses XI (KV 4), Ramesses II (KV 7), Ramesses VI (KV 9), and uninscribed tomb (KV 12).
• 5th season, 8 Feb. to March 1922: Valley between the tombs of Ramesses II (KV 7) and Ramesses VI (KV 9) ("Site A"), and in the vicinity of the tomb of Siptah (KV 47).
• 6th season (beginning), 1 Nov. 1922: In the vicinity of the tomb of Ramesses VI (KV 9).

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• The Search for Tutankhamun, http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4search.html
• See TopBib i2.495-588.