Item Carter MSS vi.2.12 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): [The Tomb of the Horse]

1 notebook

Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.

Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.

• 13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "25"-"35"
• All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
• Continuation of Carter MSS vi.2.14.
• Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 102-111): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Grey card cover
• Ruled pages
• 20.3 x 16.4 x 0.3 cms
• Printed on front cover:
  • "The Ludgate, No. 6"
  • Excercise
  • Book
  • Name.......................
  • Class........................
  • School......................
  • Date.........................
• Printed on back cover:
  • [Tables]
  • Sterling Money Table; Avoirdupois Weight; Capacity
  • Length; Time; Area
  • Multiplication Table (Extended)
  • Days in the Month; Numeration Table; Arithmetial Signs
  • Troy Weight; Metric System; Metric System
  • W. STRAKER LTD.,
  • STATIONERS & PRINTERS
  • LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. 4, AND BRANCHES.
  • ESTABLISHED 1863.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Continued from Carter MSS vi.2.14.
Later draft, see Carter MSS vi.2.10, pages 102-111.

• Formerly Carter notebook 18.
• Formerly catalogued as "Notebook containing autobiographical notes regarding Carter's excavations at Thebes".