Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.J.254
Nadpis
Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs: potsherd with hieratic text, photograph
Date(s)
- c. 1907-1911 (Creation)
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1 photograph
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(1874-1939)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's photograph of a potsherd with a hieratic inscription found during the excavation of the Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Wilhelm Spiegelberg in Carnarvon and Carter describes it as "Perhaps it is the receipt for the fee of a contract concerning a sale of land; the text is signed by Thothmosis, and has the date of 'the year 4 the 30th (?) Choiak".
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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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Existence and location of originals
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Archived scan in Griffith Institute.
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Publication note
- Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911, p. 47 pl. xxxvii [3].