Item Carter MSS i.J.254 - Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs: potsherd with hieratic text, photograph

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This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.

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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Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

• 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].