Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS i.J.201-206
Title
Thebes. Deir el-Bahri. Valley Temple of Hatshepsut: other objects, photographs
Date(s)
- c. 1907-1911 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
8 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's photographs of other objects found during the Carnarvon-Carter excavations of the (destroyed) Valley Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
Duplicates of some photographs.
- Carter MSS i.J.201 = Female / concubine / fertility figure. Perhaps from 'Site 17', see Carnarvon and Carter p. 28.
- Carter MSS i.J.202 = "Objects Site 21." Basket, reed mat, clay pellets for seal impressions, broken rush and wicker-work stool, and a rope (donkey halter?).
- Carter MSS i.J.203 = Plaited rope and diamond-shaped pieces of leather with beadwork.
- Carter MSS i.J.204 = Broken votive offerings? Include decorated pottery sherds.
- Carter MSS i.J.205 = Fragment of ushabti, scarabs, votive offerings (ears, Hathor-heads), etc.
- Carter MSS i.J.206 = Reed mat, reed rings, grains, and linen fragments.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Publication note
- See Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911, pp. 28, 32.
- See TopBib ii2.423-424.