Gesso: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication
- TAA i.3.13
- Dossier
- c. 1922-1939
Fait partie de Tutankhamun Archive
Gesso. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
- i. Typescript letter from Dr Alexander Scott, December 1930, to Howard Carter, on animal tissue with gesso used under gold on the burial shrines. Also, see Chemistry notes (TAA i.3.9).
- ii. Photograph of a microscope slide, sample with animal hair follicles, enclosed with Scott's letter.
- iii. Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes on the analysis of gesso, which mentions a layer of ‘course woven fabric’ found under gesso.
- iv. Howard Carter's manuscript notes on components of gypsum, whiting and chalk.
Scott, Alexander