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

24 photographs

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 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.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• Published in Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911, 65-87 pls. lv (plan). lvi-lxiii.
• See TopBib i2.616.
• See - 'Excavations at Thebes: the Earl of Carnarvon and The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Carnarvon Tomb 62 and Surrounds', see https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/individual-scholarship/individual-scholarship-christine-lilyquist [accessed 11/04/2022].