Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS vi.2.14
Nadpis
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): El Bab El Hosân, The Tomb of the Horse
Date(s)
- c. 1930-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 notebook
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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-... »
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
- Grey card cover
- Ruled pages
- 20.3 x 16.4 x 0.3 cms
- Printed on front cover:
- "The Ludgate, No. 6"
- Excercise
- Book
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- 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.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Formerly Carter notebook 20.