عرض نتائج 2

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Ogden, James R.
معاينة الطباعة التسلسل الهرمي
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Coffin (255): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication
TAA i.3.10 · Item · 20 July 1932
جزء من Tutankhamun Archive

Coffin (255). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • Typescript letter with an enclosed note from James R. Ogden to Howard Carter.
  • Dated 20 July 1932.
  • Notes the weight of the third (innermost) coffin (255) of gold, which is 110 kg.
  • The coffins melt value in 1932, estimated by Ogden, was £20,337.
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Gold: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication
TAA i.3.14 · File · c. 1932-1933
جزء من Tutankhamun Archive

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

  1. Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
    • (i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
    • (ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
    • (iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
    • (iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
  2. Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
    • (i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
    • (ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
    • (iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
    • (iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
    • (v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
    • (vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
  3. Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'.
    The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
    • Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
    • Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.
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