Collection TAA - Tutankhamun Archive

Object cards: compiled by Howard Carter and othersJournal: 1922-1925 (1st to 3rd seasons)Howard Carter's diary for 1922Canopic equipment: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publicationChariots: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publicationSeal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publicationDrawings of objects found on Tutankhamun's body, created by Howard CarterBurton negatives - large glass plateBurton negatives - small glass plateTen photograph albumsLantern slides"Tu tanks have just arrived""Tutankamen in the Case with Cleopatra again!""A Dream comes to Tutankhamen"Merchandise pamphletEgyptian team transporting chestsEgyptian team transporting the 'candlesticks'Transporting a basket and a boxThe team transporting two traysCarrying a chest up the tomb's rockcut staircaseMoving an ornamental vesselTransporting boxes containing preserved meatPreparing one side of the cow-headed couch for transportEscorting Tutankhamun's "mannequin"Transporting Tutankhamun's "mannequin" [1]Transporting Tutankhamun's "mannequin" [2]Carrying Tutankhamun's "mannequin" in the Valley of the KingsMoving one of Tutankhamun's chariots (122)Transporting objects from the Antechamber including a chariot wheelManoeuvering a chariot wheel out of Tutankhamun's tomb

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Identity area

Reference code

TAA

Title

Tutankhamun Archive

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

(1874-1939)

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

(1879-1940)

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

(1874-1928)

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

(1867-1945)

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

(1879-1963)

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

(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)

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

Other Archives:

  • The National Archives: authorisation to excavate, letters sent to the Foreign Office requesting access to the tomb of Tutankhamun, crank email, records linked to the contract with The Times, newspaper cuttings, records linked to the 1972
  • ... »

Publication note

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... »

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