Item Carter MSS i.J.317 - Thebes. Dra Abu el-Naga. el-Mandara. Cemeteries. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: beads, photograph

Identity area

Reference code

Carter MSS i.J.317

Title

Thebes. Dra Abu el-Naga. el-Mandara. Cemeteries. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: beads, photograph

Date(s)

  • c. 1908-1913 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 photograph

Context area

Name of creator

(1874-1939)

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, three strings of wedge-shaped beads, almost certainly those described as "several faience beads, from an ornamental flagelum (sic)", from Carter tomb 70, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, el-Mandara, Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.
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Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Publication note

  • See TopBib i2.611.