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Cote
TAA ii.21
Titre
The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: statement with documents: original documentation used for
Date(s)
- 1924 (Production)
Niveau de description
Dossier
Étendue matérielle et support
1 folder
Zone du contexte
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Presented by Sir Alan Gardiner in 1956. Formerly part of Carter MSS (Carter MSS vi.13A). Transferred to the Tutankhamun Archive in the 1990s.
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Portée et contenu
- Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
- The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
- Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
- Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".
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Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
- Carter, Howard 1999. Tut.ankh.amen: the politics of discovery (OEB 35822).