Brooch with a rectangular cabochon plaque featuring part of a scene from the lid of box 21 [Carter 21], with Tutankhamun hunting lions.
Silver decorated with enamel (light and dark blue, red, white and yellow) and opaque cream-coloured pressed glass with decoration highlighted in reddish-brown.
Hook clasp, stamped, silver hallmark "925"(?)
Plaque: Not indicated, but probably produced by the Neiger Brothers.
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.
Canopic equipment. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter's eight annotated typewritten pages with a description of the equipment and two scale drawings:
Carter's typewritten report on the canopic equipment;
Carter's typescript notes on the miniature gold coffin from the north-east receptacle;
Carter's drawing, the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b), plan with orientation, position of the goddess statues, scenes on shrine noting goddesses and genii, etc.;
Carter's drawing, section showing the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b).
The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
(Carter 116)
An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun, the so-called "mannequin", from the King's tomb to the nearby "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation. The man holding the bust is escorted by an armed guard and another Egyptian excavation team member, which was necessary to ensure the safe movement of objects through the Valley of the Kings following the announcement of the tomb's discovery, which attracted large crowds of journalists and tourists who flocked to Luxor hoping to see the tomb and view objects as they were being moved.
The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.
The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
Two Egyptian team members carrying a white chest (Carter 50) up the rock-cup steps leading out of Tutankhamun's tomb, with Howard Carter assisting (head visible behind the left shoulder of the man at the front). This chest contained many items of Tutankhamun's wardrobe.
PDF with scans of four typewritten pages from the Holmes Stereoscopic Catalogue typescript with the section listing photographs taken by Deardon Holmes in Egypt including the Tutankhamun photographs.
Complement to a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925, see TAA ii.6.65-70. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
View of activity around the entrance and stairs of Tutankhamun's tomb. Howard Carter (seated) watching Arthur Callender and three Egyptian team members manoeuvre a chariot body (121) out of the tomb.
