Part Carter MSS vi.4.5 - Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun

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Carter MSS vi.4.5

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Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun

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  • c. 1922-1939 (Creation)

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1 folder

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(1874-1939)

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Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.
This group includes:

  • 4 pages of manuscript notes on inscriptions from Tutankhamun rings, and arguments for and against Tutankhamun being the son of Amenophis III (Amenhotep III)
  • 4 pages of manuscript notes with the heading "Note re King Ay", discusses gold-leaf fragments with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ay, found in KV 58, Valley of the Kings
  • 18 pages of manuscript notes, many of the pages are crossed through (cancelled), perhaps notes for a lecture, including extracts from Theodore M. Davis's publication for KV 57, Tutankhamun's marriage to Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's age at death, his parentage and succession, dated objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb, etc.
  • Newspaper cutting with a report of this lecture titled 'Secrets of Tomb of Tutankhamen. Dr. Howard Carter on the end of a Dynasty'. No record of which newspaper this comes from.
  • Howard Carter's notes for a lecture given at University College London, July 21, 1931.

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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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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

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  • For other Carter lecture notes, see:
    • Carter MSS vi.5.1 - ('The Contribution of Ancient Egypt to Progress of the World')
    • Carter MSS vi.6.2 (Medinet Habu)
    • TAA Archive i.2.6 (Madrid lecture)

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