Presentation Pack, issued on 24 November 2022, part of the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
An illustrated fold-out carrier card, 'Tutankhamun', with the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca. Carrier card with text on the tomb's discovery on one side and a commentary for each of the objects featured in the main set of stamps on the other
Carrier card with the mini-set of four stamps 'Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb', featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, Carrier card text on the recording and conservation of the tomb's objects by Howard Carter and the excavation team.
Two copies of the Prestige Stamp Book, 'Tutankhamun: Finding a Pharaoh', issued on 12 December 2022 as part of the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Unmounted stamps from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Royal Mail Group Ltd commissioned the Griffith Institute to act as consultants supplying all the text and required images for all the Special Stamp products.
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Two copies of the set of eight colour stamps.
Main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb. Araldo De Luca supplied these images.
Two copies (identical) of the coin cover, 'The Burial of a King: Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in partnership with the Royal Mint, marking the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Royal Mail Group Ltd commissioned the Griffith Institute to act as consultants supplying all the text and required images for all the Special Stamp products.
Two identical sets of thirteen postcards featuring reproductions of all twelve Special Stamps (the mini-sheet stamps are represented twice, once as the complete mini-sheet design of four stamps as well as individually), all issued on 24 November 2022, part of the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Anonymous (ed.) 2022. A postcard from..: Royal Mail special stamps 2022. Royal Mail Yearbook 39. London: Royal Mail Group Ltd. ISBN: 9780946165773. 24.4 x 25.7 cm; 64 p., [117] figs [ills (mostly colour)] (OEB 307243).
The publication contains every stamp and miniature sheet issued by Royal Mail in 2022, with a chapter devoted to every Special Stamp issue. An expert in their field has written each dedicated chapter for each stamp issue. The subjects include The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
Contains the chapter 'Tutankhamun' and discusses the extraordinary period during which Tutankhamun lived, the significance of his burial and its site in the Valley of the Kings.
Also contains the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca.
Mini stamp sheet of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.
Newspaper cutting, 'King Tut the 1st', the brief article features one stamp (mask) from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, issued on 24 November 2022.
1 inked tracing of 3 lines of a hieratic graffito, from the house of Amennakht (C.IV), Dyn. XX, at Deir el-Medina (see TopBib i2.702). Tracing made by Michel Malinine.
1 inked tracing, 7 lines of a hieratic graffito from KV 9, tomb of Ramesses VI, Thebes, visited by scribes in year 9 of Ramesses IX. Scribe Amenhotep and his entourage, visiting the tomb (see TopBib i2.517). Reference to a previous record made by Champollion, J. F., Notices descriptives ii (1889), 635 (OEB 136960).
1 typewritten and handwritten page. Text of a Ramesside graffito from the temple of Hatshepsut ("scratched on door jamb of North Postern"), based on a copy by W. C. Hayes, transcribed by A. H. Gardiner and annotated by J. Černý and R. Moss.
1 photograph, positive print, annotated on the back. Photograph of a hieratic graffito of year 50 (probably of Ramesses II) of the scribe Ptahemwia and father Yupa, concerning their visit to Pyramid of Sahure and paying homage to the goddess Sekhmet. Graffito from room II (Second Portico) in the mastaba-tomb of Ptahshepses, Middle of Dyn. V, at Abusir. See TopBib iii2.342(8) and (9).
1 tracing, with handwritten annotation, of a demotic graffito from the Inner Hall (South wall, left side), in the Temple of Sethos I at Redisseya. See TopBib vii.324 (22).
Hand-drawn plan of a temple, probably Abahuda (see TopBib vii.119-120), mapped locations of graffiti (ancient Egyptian and Old Nubian) on recto, with further notes on verso.