Item TAA ii.16.17 - Tutankhamun related documentation, other than excavation records: mask of Tutankhamun, digital image

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TAA ii.16.17

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Tutankhamun related documentation, other than excavation records: mask of Tutankhamun, digital image

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  • 2004 (Creation)

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1 digital image

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(1879-1940)

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.

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The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.16.

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  • Digital image.
  • Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
  • Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
  • Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
  • Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

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The original negative was deaccessioned.

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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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Not known.

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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.

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