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Chair (91), digital image

  • Digital image, original image perhaps created by Walter Segal or a Cairo, Egyptian Museum, photographer.
  • The original negative was created in the early 1930s.
  • 'Studio' image of the so-called throne of Tutankhamun (91).
  • Part of the same sequence of images within the Segal MSS.

Segal, Walter

Lunch in the Valley of the Kings: view 1, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photograph was probably taken by Lord Carnarvon in mid-February 1923.
  • Lunch in the Valley of the Kings (KV4, Ramesses IV). From left to right, an unidentified person, Harry Burton, Alfred Lucas, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Howard Carter, and another unidentified person.
  • From a sequence of photographs showing the same event.

Lunch in the Valley of the Kings: view 2, digital image

  • Digital image.
  • The original photograph was probably taken by Lord Carnarvon in mid-February 1923.
  • Lunch in the Valley of the Kings (KV4, Ramesses IV). From left to right, James Henry Breasted, Harry Burton, Alfred Lucas, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Howard Carter, and Alan Gardiner.
  • From a sequence of photographs showing the same event.
  • Taken at the same time as Burton photograph P1544.

Enclosure wall and backfilled entrance of tomb: view 6, photograph

  • Photograph, taken by James Deardon Holmes.
  • Taken in 1925.
  • Annotation on mount: '267.'
  • 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.

Egyptian team transporting the 'candlesticks'

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

Moving an ornamental vessel

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • Egyptian team members transporting one of Tutankhamun's elaborate vessels (Carter 57) from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15). The large vessel, carved from a single piece of Egyptian alabaster, originally contained unguent, its contents stolen by the tomb robbers who entered the tomb in antiquity. The vessel's body is flanked by openwork side pieces incorporating bound papyrus and lotus flowers, symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt and its unification, as well as representing the King's sovereignty. The vessel's body is decorated with Tutankhamun's cartouches; the incised decoration has been filled with black pigment.

View of the modern enclosure wall and the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • View of the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, erected by Howard Carter following the discovery of the King's tomb in November 1922, with the tomb's entrance visible in the foreground (left of centre).

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Soleb

View of the temple of Amun and Amenhotep III at Soleb:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'Solib Temple of Amenoph Solib'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Temple of Solib Ethiopia'. (ink note)
  • 33.2 by 22.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Philae

View of the temple of Isis at Philae, including the north enclosure wall of the Temple of Arsenuphis with First Court area and the first pylon of the Isis temple in the background:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Temple in the Island of Philae'. (ink note)
  • 46.8 by 31.3 cm

George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Thebes. West Bank. Medinet Habu

Relief scene (register 1, scene 2) from the second court area of the temple at Medinet Habu. The scene shows the king Ramesses III (in following part of register, Hoskins MSS 3.49) censing and libating to statue of Min during the Min festival, followed by rows of male figures including fan-bearers:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'No. 2'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Grand procession Medenet Abou Thebes'. (ink note)
  • 47.2 by 30.4 cm
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