Item TAA ii.6.79 - Preparing one side of the cow-headed couch for transport

1 postcard

Formerly with an online postcard dealer in the U.S.A. in August 2023.

The Griffith Institute purchased the postcard in August 2023.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was taken on 24th January 1923, the day Carter recorded this couch being moved; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly sometime in the 1920s.
• Howard Carter (left), assisted by Walter Hauser (right), manoeuvring the right side of the cow-headed couch (Carter 73) into a packing case in preparation for its transfer to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of Sethos II (KV15).

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/073.html
• Same photograph as TAA ii.6.21

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

• Acquired with TAA ii.6.72-4, 76-87 (postcards from the same series).