Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.J.79-106
Title
Thebes. Asasif. Birabi. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Tomb 37: photographs of objects
Date(s)
- c. 1907-1911 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
31 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 smaller objects including statuettes, boards, vessels and baskets, from tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes:
- Canopic box of Ahhotp, woman, as Tanedjem(t).
- Statuette of boy Amenemhab, electrum, found in the coffin of father Djhout, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1413.
- Statuette of Huwebenef (brother of preceding), wood, found in the coffin of father Djhout, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1414.
- Three stelae with standing figures and hieratic texts, wood, Hyksos Period, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43215 (Ihy), JE 43218-19 (no names).
- Pot with a hieratic letter to Ahhotp.
- Female servant statuette, wood, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.181.251.
- Sealing of Tuthmosis I on the door of Room A.
Some of the photographs are duplicates and include cuttings.
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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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Publication note
- Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911, see 65-88 pls. lv (plan), lvi, lviii [1], lxiv-lxxv, lxxvi [3].
- 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].