Unidad documental simple TAA ii.6.81a - Transporting Tutankhamun's "mannequin" [1]

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Código de referencia

TAA ii.6.81a

Título

Transporting Tutankhamun's "mannequin" [1]

Fecha(s)

  • 1923 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Unidad documental simple

Volumen y soporte

1 postcard

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

Carter, Howard
(1874-1939)

Nombre del productor

Burton, Harry
(1879-1940)

Nombre del productor

Nombre del productor

Lucas, Alfred
(1867-1945)

Nombre del productor

Nombre del productor

Newberry, Percy Edward
(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)

Historia archivística

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

Origen del ingreso o transferencia

The Griffith Institute purchased the postcard in August 2023.

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • (Carter 116)
  • An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun, the so-called "mannequin", from the King's tomb to the nearby "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
  • The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
  • The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.

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Condiciones de acceso

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

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Notas

  • Acquired with TAA ii.6.72-80, 81b-87 (postcards from the same series).

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