Identity area
Reference code
TAA ii.6.24
Title
Transporting Tutankhamun's chair(?), postcard
Date(s)
- 1923 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 postcard
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Dr Paul Nicholson in March 1992.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Postcard.
- Photograph, photographer not known.
- Photograph taken in early 1923.
- An object, perhaps one of Tutankhamun's chairs, transported from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, Sethos II). Arthur Callender (wearing a white hat) accompanies the Egyptian team members, Alan Gardiner (wearing a dark hat) stands on the right.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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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.
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Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scan in Griffith Institute.