Item Carter MSS iv.2 - Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: report

19 pages (1 grid-lined; 18 ruled lined)

This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.

Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.
Group includes:

• "Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
• Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
• The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
  • General description
  • History
  • Excavations
  • Antiquities

18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• See TopBib iv.39A.
• Report not published.