Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.J.60-76
Title
Thebes. Asasif. Birabi. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Tomb 37: photographs of coffins and mummies
Date(s)
- c. 1907-1911 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
24 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
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 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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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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.
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Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
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Publication note
- 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].