Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Carter MSS i
Título
Fecha(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Serie
Volumen y soporte
9 boxes, 1 enclosure, 81 maps and plans
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British Egyptologist. Born, London 1874. Died, London 1939. Privately educated. Employed by P. E. Newberry in 1891 working for the Archaeological Survey. Assisted in excavations for the Egypt Exploration Fund 1892-3, was with Petrie at Amarna in 1892, and as a draughtsman to the Deir el-Bahri expedition 1893-9. Appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities of Upper Egypt 1899-1904. Discovered several royal tombs, including those of Hatshepsut, Tuthmosis IV and Amenophis I. Inspector of Lower Egypt 1905. Employed by Lord Carnarvon from 1909 onwards, to excavate in the Theban necropolis, the Delta and Middle Egypt. His most famous discovery, that of the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, was made in 1922. He spent the next ten years recording the tomb's contents. Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.
Historia archivística
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Work and excavations in Thebes:
- royal tombs
- private tombs
- caches
- graffiti
- inscriptions
- ostraca
- maps and plans
- excavations
- notes and records
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
- Material relating to excavations undertaken by Lord Carnarvon and The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Thebes from 1911-1916, published by Christine Lilyquist, Excavations at Thebes: The Earl of Carnarvon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Carnarvon 62 and Surrounds, 1911–1916 (https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/individual-scholarship/individual-scholarship-christine-lilyquist (accessed 09/03/2022)).
- Carter MSS i.J partially published as part of 'The Search for Tutankhamun', see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4search.html (accessed 09/03/2022).