Item Carter MSS vi.2.14 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): El Bab El Hosân, The Tomb of the Horse

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
    • 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.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Related units of description

Continued in Carter MSS vi.2.12.
Later draft, see Carter MSS vi.2.10, pages 87-102.

Notes area

Note

Formerly Carter notebook 20.