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Journal: inventory, objects sent to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 1922-1929

Tutankhamun journal with an inventory of objects sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, between 1922 and 1929

  • Pages 1-17
    • Arthur Mace's manuscript records
    • Mace's heading on the title page (page 0), "Tut-Ankh-Amun"
    • Mace's heading on page 1, "Catalogue of objects sent to Cairo Museum. Season 1922-1923"
    • Mace's final entry, "34 packages containing 89 boxes", and signed by A.C.M. (Arthur C. Mace) and H.C. (Howard Carter), dated "12 May 1923."
  • Page 18
    • Unidentified hand, manuscript notes, French
    • French manuscript heading, "Liste des Caisses parties de la Vallée des Rois le 1er Avril, a 10 h. 15 a.m."
    • Carter's manuscript annotation at top of the page, "Cases and antiquities removed by the Service des Antiquities Spring 1924 from No. 15 and No. 4 Biban el Maluke"
  • Pages 19-21
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Carter's final entry, "Nineteen cases handed over to M. Baraize for transport to Cairo March 31st 1925. Howard Carter [signature]. These cases were carried by hand and(?) to River Early morn of the 1st April"
  • Page 22
    • Carter's manuscript column headings, but no entries
  • Page 23
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Carter's final entry, "The above objects enclosed in sixteen cases (one of which No. 16 to be brought by Mr. Carter). Howard Carter [signature] April 16th 1927."
  • Page 25
    • Typewritten list affixed to page
    • Cases "XXIII" to "XXXVIII"
    • All objects are from the Treasury
    • Not dated
  • Pages 26-32
    • Carter's manuscript records
    • Objects are from the Treasury and Annexe
    • "List of cases of antiquities sent to the Cairo Museum March [day not entered] th., 1929."
    • Carter's final entry, "Ninety cases of antiquities as for above list. delivered to the Chief Inspector for transport March ... 1929. H.C."

Bow-case (335): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Bow case 335. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • Carter's manuscript list of animals depicted on the bow case, noting the colours of the same.
  • Carter's manuscript list of plants represented on the bow case.
  • Harry Burton's photographs of the bow case, annotated by Carter.

Carter, Howard

Chemistry: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Chemistry. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • H. J. Plenderleith's typescript report on:
    • i. The pigments contained in the palettes from the toy chest found in the Annexe;
    • ii. The paint used on the Burial chamber walls;
    • iii. The metal tongues from the second shrine;
    • iv. The thickness of gold on shrines (also see Gesso notes);
    • v. On animal skin found with gesso. Plenderleith suggests this is to provide a resilient cushion beneath gold for tooling;
  • Typescript for a lecture given in 1926 by H. Bunker on 'Scientific Aspects of Tomb'.

Plenderleith, Harold James

Sepulchral shrines and sarcophagus - objects found between: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Objects found between the sarcophagus (240) and shrines (207), (237), (238) and (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Carter's report on objects nos. 242 (fan), 250 (djad emblem), 249 (bundle of reeds), 251(rags and chips of wood) , 245 (fan), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 241, 247 (long bows), and 248 (ten arrows).
  • ii. Harry Burton's photographs of 242, 245 (fans), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 250 (djad pillar).

Carter, Howard

Shawabtis (ushabtis): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Shawabti (ushabti) figures. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Carter's typewritten general notes on shawabtis.
  • ii. Carter's manuscript report with transcriptions, and notes, for shawabtis from Tutankhamun's tomb, including lists with shawabtis grouped by type, their object excavation number, material, and the chamber they were found.

Carter, Howard

Tomb and tomb plan: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Tutankhamun's tomb and tomb plan. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • Carter's 12-page annotated typewritten discussion on Tutankhamun's tomb and 18th Dynasty royal tomb types.
  • Comparisons with other royal tombs and notes on tomb plans from the Turin Papyrus, with the names for the various parts of the tomb.
  • Suggestion as to the identity of the architect of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Carter, Howard

Burton negatives - small glass plate

Harry Burton's small glass plate negatives

Howard Carter's negatives

Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs

  • Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
  • Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
  • Glass and film negatives.
  • Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
  • Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
  • The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
  • A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
  • Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
  • Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.

Box (21), photographs

Rainbow McLean's photographs of box (21), from the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61467.

McLean, Rainbow

Tutankhamun related documentation, other than excavation records: enclosure wall around the tomb, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
  • Original postcard features Burton photograph KV79.
  • Postcard caption: 003 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES ENTRANCE TO TOMB
  • View of the modern enclosure wall protecting the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Burton, Harry

Tutankhamun related documentation, other than excavation records: mask of Tutankhamun, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
  • Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
  • Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
  • Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

Burton, Harry

The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: statement with documents

  • P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
  • "Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
  • Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.

Carter, Howard

1968 examination of Tutankhamun's body, photograph

  • Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
  • The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.

Reeve, Lynton

Moving the Hathor-cow couch from Tutankhamun's tomb, photograph

  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • Caption: 'The hundreds of tourists witness the removal of the ‘Royal Cow Couch’ enbellished (sic) with gold.'
  • A couch from the Antechamber, taken under armed guard to the workroom (tomb KV 15, of Sethos II) for recording and conservation.
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