Area dell'identificazione
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Titolo
Date
- May 1928 (Creazione)
- 1926 - 1927 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
1 notebook
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Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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 Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.
Storia archivistica
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Modalità di acquisizione
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Howard Carter's 'Notes upon Objects in the Store-room [Treasury], 1926-1927', forming parts of chapters 1 and 2 in volume iii of The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Madrid lecture, and notes on damp in the tomb
- 81 numbered pages
- Carter's manuscript drafts (partial) for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 1 and 2.
- Manuscript notes for a lecture in Madrid, May 1928.
- Manuscript notes regarding the 'Existence of damp in the tomb'.
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Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Lingua dei materiali
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
- Bound buff-coloured volume
- Printed labels on the front cover board: "Egyptian Government" and "G"
- 33.6 by 21.5 by 1.5 cm
- Ruled pages
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Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unità di descrizione collegate
- For other drafts for Carter's The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen publications, see
- TAA i.2.9 (volume ii, chapters 5 and 6)
- TAA i.2.10 (volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5)
- For other Carter lecture notes, see:
- Carter MSS vi.5.1 ('The Contribution of Ancient Egypt to Progress of the World')
- Carter MSS vi.4.5 (University College London lecture)
- Carter MSS vi.6.2 (Medinet Habu)
Nota bibliografica
- Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen iii (1933) (OEB 136412)
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4carmad.html (Madrid lecture)
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Nota
- Formerly catalogued as Tutankhamun MSS 6
- Also formerly referred to as:
- Carter notebook 6
- Tutankhamun notebook 6