Identity area
Reference code
TAA i.2.10
Title
Date(s)
- 1927-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 enclosure
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, and as a draughtsman to the Deir el-Bahri expedition 1893-9. Appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities of Upper Egypt 1899-1904. Discovered several royal tombs, including those of Hatshepsut, Tuthmosis IV and Amenophis I. Inspector of Lower Egypt 1905. Employed by Lord Carnarvon from 1909 onwards, to excavate in the Theban necropolis, the Delta and Middle Egypt. His most famous discovery, that of the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, was made in 1922. He spent the next ten years recording the tomb's contents. Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.
Archival history
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Howard Carter's notes on objects found in the Annexe, manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5, and notes on deterioration and chemical change
- Unbound group of 91 rule-lined, loose pages
- Some pages crossed through (cancelled) by Carter
- Includes some correspondence, list separately below
- Notes, some with drawings on various topics including:
- Egyptian slings;
- Boxes and caskets found in the Annexe;
- ‘Note upon Older or Ancestral objects in Royal Tombs’;
- Alabaster and stone vessels;
- Baskets;
- 'Breakage of objects (in the Annexe)’;
- Chairs;
- Footstools;
- Archery;
- Weapons, arms and armour;
- Game boxes;
- Bread;
- Wine jars;
- ‘Robes of Dalmatic type’;
- Fire apparatus;
- Fan;
- Minerals.
- Carter's manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5:
- Sections beginning or titled:
- 'This Annexe was intended for a Store-Room' [etc.];
- 'Notes. Re Arts, Crafts and design.';
- 'The existence of damp in the tomb' [etc.];
- 'The possible sources of water from above, behind and sides of the foot-hill.'
- ‘Deterioration and chemical change’.
- Correspondence within this group:
- J. S. M. Rennie, of J. S. M. Rennie, Limited, to The Editor of the Illustrated London News, dated 17-08-1929, concerning Egyptian slings (TAA i.2.10.1);
- Berkeley Moynihan, to Howard Carter, dated 13-01-1929, mentioning a visit to the tomb and questions about the two foetuses found in the tomb, and the calcite boat.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
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.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
- Most pages have punch holes, indicating the group was almost certainly originally housed in a ring binder.
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
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4ann.html
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/TAA_i_2_10.html
- Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen iii (1933) (OEB 136412).
Notes area
Note
- Formerly catalogued as Tutankhamun MSS 10
- Also referred to as:
- Carter notebook 10
- Tutankhamun notebook 10