Identity area
Reference code
TAA ii.16.17
Title
Tutankhamun related documentation, other than excavation records: mask of Tutankhamun, digital image
Date(s)
- 2004 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 digital image
Context area
Name of creator
(1879-1940)
Biographical history
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian Henry Hobart Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1... »
Archival history
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.16.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- 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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
The original negative was deaccessioned.
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.
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.