Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS v.105
Nadpis
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: draft correspondence, Howard Carter to Alan H. Gardiner
Date(s)
- 1917 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
11 pages
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
Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.
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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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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
- Gardiner's letters to Carter, see Carter MSS v.104.
- Carter's draft sketches of details, see Carter MSS v.106.
- Carter's finished drawings of the Festival of Opet scenes, see Gardiner MSS 11.