Identity area
Reference code
TAA ii.16.16
Title
Date(s)
- 2004 (Creation)
- c. 1927-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 digital image
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian R. Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1914 onwards he worked for the rest of his career as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His task was to record many of the royal and private tombs at Thebes. Between 1922 and 1933 he was lent by the Metropolitan Museum to Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to make a photographic record during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Archival history
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.17.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Digital image.
- The original negative was made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
- Postcard caption: 018 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES THE TUTELARY GODDESS SELKIT
- Original postcard features Burton photograph P1550.
- Statue of the goddess Selkis from Tutankhamun's canopic shrine (266), gilded wood, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60686.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
The original negative was nitrate and deaccessioned.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Not known.
Existence and location of copies
The Griffith Institute only has a low-resolution jpeg (600dpi) digital scan for this image, and it is not possible to rescan the original, now deaccessioned, negative.