Tutankhamun documentation: Nina de Garis Davies' notes on boxes (21) and (540)+(551).

• Nina de Garis Davies's manuscript notes on the decoration of two boxes:
  • Carter object (21), the "Painted Box" with battle and hunting scenes.
  • Carter objects (540)+(551), with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden on the lid.
• Includes two small watercolour sketches and a line drawing, all created by Davies.
• This material was created in January and February 1951 when Davies visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Davies's paintings of box (21) were subsequently published. See below for details.

• Copy of Davies, Nina M. and Gardiner, Alan H. 1962. Tutankhamun’s painted box: reproduced in colour from the original in the Cairo Museum. Artwork by Nina M. Davies, with explanatory text by Alan H. Gardiner, published by Oxford University Press for Griffith Institute, Oxford [OEB 8995].
• A group of duplicate plates (see below).