File TAA i.3.22 - Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Howard Carter's drawing of a necropolis seal impression from Tutankhamun's tomb.
TAA Archive i.3.22.20 (detail).

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Reference code

TAA i.3.22

Title

Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Date(s)

  • 1922-1939 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1865-1935)

Biographical history

American Egyptologist and orientalist. Born, Rockford, Ill. 1865. Died, New York 1935. Educated at North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., then Chicago College of Pharmacy, 1882-6. Started a career in pharmacy before going on to study Hebrew at the ... »

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

(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. ... »

Archival history

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

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donated by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
  • ii.
  • ... »

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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

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