Item Carter MSS vi.2.2 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): The Excavator and his Task; The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple; Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS vi.2.2

Title

Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): The Excavator and his Task; The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple; Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment

Date(s)

  • c. 1930-1939 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 folder

Context area

Name of creator

Carter, Howard
(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, draft typescript with the following section/chapter headings:

  • The Excavator and his Task
    • 15 pages, annotated typescript and manuscript
    • 1 section/chapter title page (annotated by Carter: "Add interpolations in "Three milk
    ... »

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.