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."
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).
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.
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.
Howard Carter, assisted by Walter Hauser, manoeuvring one side of the cow-headed couch (73) into a packing case for transfer to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).
An object, perhaps one of Tutankhamun's chairs, transported from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, Sethos II). Arthur Callender (wearing a white hat) accompanies the Egyptian team members, Alan Gardiner (wearing a dark hat) stands on the right.
Scene on the bank of Nile, showing Egyptian team members loading packing cases containing Tutankhamun's objects on to a boat, in preparation for their transport by boat to Cairo.
A group of tourists listen to a local guide while standing next to the modern enclosure wall surrounding the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun. On the right, a man stands holding a tray of objects, possibly refreshments or souvenirs.
An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (116), the so-called mannequin, from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (KV 15, Sethos II). The Egyptologist and journalist Arthur Weigall can be seen walking alongside, in the background.
Arthur Callender and Egyptian team members transporting a chariot body (121) from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV 15, Sethos II).
The original photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer, probably in early 1923.
A donkey procession in the Valley of the Kings. At the front, riding sidesaddle is Howard Carter, followed by Arthur Mace (wearing a dark hat). The man partially obscured by Mace is Alfred Lucas. At the back, riding the last donkey is Arthur Callender.
Donkeys were the main form of transport to and from Tutankhamun's tomb.
TAA ii.6.62 almost certainly records the same event.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.