Item TAA i.3.10 - Coffin (255): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

2 pages

Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece, Miss Phyllis Walker.

Donated by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.

Coffin (255). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Typescript letter with an enclosed note from James R. Ogden to Howard Carter.
• Dated 20 July 1932.
• Notes the weight of the third (innermost) coffin (255) of gold, which is 110 kg.
• The coffins melt value in 1932, estimated by Ogden, was £20,337.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/255.html

• Not published by Howard Carter.
• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tutcof.html