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Código de referência
TAA ii.16.16
Título
Data(s)
- 2004 (Produção)
- c. 1927-1939 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Item
Dimensão e suporte
1 digital image
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Nome do produtor
História biográfica
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.
História do arquivo
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.17.
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
- 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.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
The original negative was nitrate and deaccessioned.
Ingressos adicionais
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Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiçoes de reprodução
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existência e localização de originais
Not known.
Existência e localização de cópias
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.