Zone d'identification
Cote
Carter MSS i
Titre
Date(s)
- c. 1899-1922 (Production)
Niveau de description
Série organique
Étendue matérielle et support
9 boxes, 1 enclosure, 81 maps and plans
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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 Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Work and excavations in Thebes:
- royal tombs
- private tombs
- caches
- graffiti
- inscriptions
- ostraca
- maps and plans
- excavations
- notes and records
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
- 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).