Identity area
Reference code
TAA ii.6.51
Nadpis
Transporting portrait bust (mannequin), photograph
Date(s)
- 1923 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 photograph
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Mrs M. Young in April 2001.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Photograph, photographer not known.
- Photograph taken in early 1923.
- An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (116), the so-called mannequin, from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (KV 15, Sethos II). The Egyptologist and journalist Arthur Weigall can be seen walking alongside, in the background.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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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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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scan in Griffith Institute.