Item TAA ii.6.3 - Moving the Hathor-cow couch from Tutankhamun's tomb, photograph

1 photograph

Presented by Dr. H. Whitehouse and Mrs. G. E. W. Howells in June 1990. Acquired from a stall-holder in the Wellfield Antiques Centre in Bangor, North Wales.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'The hundreds of tourists witness the removal of the ‘Royal Cow Couch’ enbellished (sic) with gold.'
• A couch from the Antechamber, taken under armed guard to the workroom (tomb KV 15, of Sethos II) for recording and conservation.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4anacpho.html

This photograph is part of an album titled ‘Tut-Ankh-Amen, Luxor’ containing twenty photographs dating between 27 December 1922 and 3 February 1923. Affixed label: ‘Belgian Photo. Store 13 El Manakh Street Cairo.’