Drawings of groups of people including three men with weapons of spears and swords, a man and woman filling jars of water on the bank of the Nile, and two women carrying jars on their heads, one with a child:
pencil drawing
mounted
[on recto, above figures] 'Arabi che si salutano' (top left), 'Arabs lighting a fire to be drawn as fine looking men Arabi che accendono il fuoco' (top right), 'Donne che vanno a prendere acqua'. (lower scene) (pencil notes)
[on recto, top right] 'All the figures must be drawn as fine looking men'. (pencil note)
Bedstead (47) with the bows, arrows, quiver and sticks found on top (48), in transit from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).
Two Egyptian team members transporting trays from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, Sethos II). The first tray contains textiles(?), the second tray contains a decorated footstool. Howard Carter walks in the foreground, on the left side.
Photograph taken in early 1923, date of postcard not known.
Captioned 'Exploitation of Tout-Ankh-Amon's Tomb'.
Howard Carter (right) and Arthur Callender (left) carrying a tray of objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb. Objects include two footstools (78) and (84) and a rounded box of ebony and redwood veneer (79).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Members of the Egyptian team manoeuvring a large carrying tray out through the entrance to the modern enclosure wall constructed shortly after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. The team are carrying two black shrine-like boxes (Carter 37) and (Carter 38) and a gabled-roofed box (Carter 32), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory.
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.
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)
Howard Carter (second from right, striding, wearing a hat with a black band) accompanying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (the so-called "mannequin"; Carter 116), which is carried by an Egyptian member of the team transporting the object to the "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
Also present in the photograph is Lord Carnarvon (sitting on the wall at the far left), who watches as the group passes by. The man walking to the left of the Earl is Arthur Weigall (dark hat with a darker headband), a former Egyptian Antiquities Service Inspector now engaged as a journalist reporting on the excavation. The other Europeans present here are also journalists or tourists.
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.