Área de identidad
Código de referencia
TAA i.2.10
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1927-1939 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
1 enclosure
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
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 Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.
Historia archivística
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
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.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
- Most pages have punch holes, indicating the group was almost certainly originally housed in a ring binder.
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
- 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).
Área de notas
Notas
- Formerly catalogued as Tutankhamun MSS 10
- Also referred to as:
- Carter notebook 10
- Tutankhamun notebook 10