Identity area
Reference code
TAA ii.15
Title
Transporting one of Tutankhamun's couches, negative
Date(s)
- c. 1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 negative
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Name of creator
(1879-1940)
Name of creator
(1874-1928)
Name of creator
(1867-1945)
Name of creator
(1879-1963)
Name of creator
(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Made from a print loaned by Mrs Elizabeth Prendergast in August 1998.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Photograph showing Howard Carter (left) and an Egyptian team member carrying one side of the hippopotamus couch (137) out of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- Negative made from an original photograph.
- Original photograph, photographer not known. Taken in early 1923.
- Labelled: ‘At the Luxor Tomb. At the Exit from the tomb. Mr. H. Carter helping to carry out a section of one of the couches’.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
The negative is the property of the Griffith Institute. Consultation only.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright The Times.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
- Archived scan in Griffith Institute.
- Not Griffith Institute copyright.