
Identity area
Reference code
TAA
Title
Date(s)
- 1922-2014 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
24 boxes, 15 albums, 12 packages, 47 maps and drawings, 7 card index drawers, 5 rolls, 2 large folders, approximately 2000 original glass negatives, over 600 lantern slides, and sets of duplicate negatives and photographs.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist. Born, London 1874. Died, London 1939. Privately educated. Employed by P. E. Newberry in 1891 working for the Archaeological Survey. Assisted in excavations for the Egypt Exploration Fund 1892-3, was with Petrie at Amarna in 1892, ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian R. Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1914 ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist. Born, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania 1874. Died, Haywards Heath, Sussex 1928. Educated, St Edward's School, Oxford, then Keble College, Oxford. BA, 1895. Worked with W. M. F. Petrie at Dendera, Hû, and Abydos, between 1897-1901. ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
British chemist. Born, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1867. Died, Luxor 1945. Educated, School of Mines, London, and the Royal College of Science. Worked for the British Government as an assistant chemist, until ill health prompted a move to Egypt. There he was ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist. Born, Eltham 1879. Died, Oxford 1963. Educated at Charterhouse, then studied Classics, Hebrew and Arabic at The Queen's College, Oxford. Worked with A. Erman on the preparation of material for the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
Percy Edward Newberry M.A. O.B.E. was born on 23 April 1869 and died at his home in Godalming, England, on 7 August 1949. He was educated at King’s College School and King’s College, London and later mentored in Egyptology by Reginald Stuart Poole of the ... »
Archival history
Part of Howard Carter's estate. Bequeathed to Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker in 1939. For other material included within this group, see entries within the catalogue.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Miss Walker donated Carter's excavation records (and Carter MSS) in several groups in 1945, 1946, 1959, and 1972. Other material was acquired at various times, see the catalogue.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
System of arrangement
Mostly kept as received and arranged in four groups.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions apart from certain categories listed in the catalogue.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford, except for those items marked otherwise in the catalogue.
Language of material
- English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Catalogue. Also online (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4taa.html).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are the original excavation records. For other and secondary material included here, see the catalogue.
Existence and location of copies
Refer to the catalogue. Digitised copies of almost all Carter's Tutankhamun excavation records exist in the Griffith Institute.
Related units of description
Publication note
- Carter, Howard and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, 3 volumes (1922-1933) (OEB 136412):
- Volume i (1923): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77344 (discovery of tomb, Antechamber, opening of the Burial chamber);
- Volume ii (1927): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77328 (Burial chamber, examination of Tutankhamun's mummy);
- Volume iii (1933): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77360 (Treasury and Annexe).
- For a list of the Tutankhamun Tomb Series fascicles published by the Griffith Institute, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/publications.html
- See web publication of original excavation records 'Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation': http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/
Notes area
Note
A typescript of a note found in P. E. Newberry's copy of Howard Carter's Statement, extracted from Newberry's 1938-9 notebook, page 115, is filed with the Carter Tutankhamun Archive accession correspondence:
"Tutankhamun. Information given me by Lucas, 2... »
Digital object metadata
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Media type
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