Bereich "Identifikation"
Signatur
TAA ii.16.17
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- 2004 (Anlage)
Erschließungsstufe
Einzelstück
Umfang und Medium
1 digital image
Bereich "Kontext"
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
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.
Bestandsgeschichte
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.16.
Abgebende Stelle
Bereich "Inhalt und innere Ordnung"
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
- 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.
Bewertung, Vernichtung und Terminierung
The original negative was deaccessioned.
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Ordnung und Klassifikation
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Benutzungsbedingungen
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Reproduktionsbedingungen
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Originalen
Not known.
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Kopien
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.