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Carter MSS i.K.21
Title
Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Tombs: records and notes, from manuscripts and publications
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 notebook
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.
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Scope and content
Howard Carter's unfinished draft manuscript on the Valley of the Kings (22 pages).
Also, Carter's extracts, copied from manuscripts and publications, in reference to the Valley of the Kings, Thebes (79 pages).
Includes:
- Lepsius, R. 1853. Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the peninsula of Sinai
- Rawlinson, George 1887. Ancient Egypt 3rd ed.
- Robert Hay MSS
- James Burton MSS
- Rougé, Emmanuel de 1877. Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en Égypte pendant la mission scientifique de M. le vicomte Emmanuel de Rougé
- Head, F. B. 1844. The life of Bruce: the African traveller
- Pierret, Paul 1877. Catalogue de la salle historique de la galerie égyptienne
- Denon, Vivant 1802. Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte, pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte, volumes i, ii
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista 1820. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia
- Head, Charles Franklin 1833. Eastern and Egyptian scenery, ruins, &c.
- Mariette, Auguste 1893. Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte
- Wilkinson, J. G. 1835. Topography of Thebes and general view of Egypt
- Rhind, A. Henry 1862. Thebes: its tombs and their tenants, ancient and present, including a record of excavations in the necropolis
- Dawson, John William 1887. Egypt and Syria: their physical features in relation to Bible history
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders 1897. A history of Egypt vol. 2
- Lepsius, [C. R.] 1868. 'Grundplan des Grabes König Ramses IV. in einem Turiner Papyrus'. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, hist.-philol. Kl. 1867, pp. 1-21
- Lepsius, R. 1849. Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien
- Champollion, Jean-François 1835-1845. Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie
- Saint John, James Augustus [1845]. Egypt and Nubia: their scenery and their people
- Gauthier, Henri 1907-1917. Le livre des rois d'Égypte: recueil de titres et protocoles royaux, noms propres de rois, reines, princes et princesses, noms de pyramides et de temples solaires, suivi d'un index alphabétique
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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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Note
Formerly referred to as "Carter Notebook G".