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Titolo
Date
- 1925-1926 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
18 tracing paper pages
Area del contesto
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 Most of Carter's records for Tutankhamun's tomb remain unpublished.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
Modalità di acquisizione
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Howard Carter's "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.
- 18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925
- All by Howard Carter
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
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
- The drawings are made on two sizes of paper:
- Large: 25.7 x 20.6 cm (approx.)
- Small: 12.7 x 20.4 cm (approx.)
- Paper is delicate and requires careful handling
Strumenti di ricerca
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unità di descrizione collegate
- Howard Carter's excavation journal entries for 11-19 November 1925: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/journals-and-diaries/season-4/journal.html
- Tutankhamun object cards 256 to 256, 4v: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/256.html and following
Nota bibliografica
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tutmdra.html
- Six published in Illustrated London News, 26 February 1927, pp. 350-351.