Item Carter MSS i.J.60-76 - Thebes. Asasif. Birabi. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Tomb 37: photographs of coffins and mummies

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Carter MSS i.J.60-76

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Thebes. Asasif. Birabi. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Tomb 37: photographs of coffins and mummies

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  • c. 1907-1911 (Creation)

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24 photographs

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(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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Howard Carter's photographs of coffins and mummies from tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes:

  • Rîshi coffins, Nos. 2, 10, 11, 12, 60, 66, 70, Second Intermediate Period, five in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43634, 43637-40.
  • Four rectangular decorated coffins, Nos. 7, 35, 59, 63, Hyksos Period, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43642-5.
  • Coffin of Ahhotp, woman, anthropoid, 18th Dynasty, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.181.303.
  • Coffin of Ahmosi, anthropoid, 18th Dynasty, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14.10.2.
  • Coffin of Mentuhotp, New Kingdom.
  • Coffin of Djhuti, anthropoid, New Kingdom.
  • Coffin, no name, New Kingdom, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 5.12.25.1.

The group contains duplicates of some photographs.

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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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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

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