Item TAA ii.6.87 - View of the modern enclosure wall and the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb

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 probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• View of the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, erected by Howard Carter following the discovery of the King's tomb in November 1922, with the tomb's entrance visible in the foreground (left of centre).

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scan in Griffith Institute.

• Similar photographs, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4anacpho.html

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