Item TAA iii.25.2.12 - Hippopotamus head from couch (137), cigarette card

Identity area

Reference code

TAA iii.25.2.12

Title

Hippopotamus head from couch (137), cigarette card

Date(s)

  • 1926 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 cigarette card

Context area

Name of creator

(1879-1940)

Biographical history

British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian Henry Hobart Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1... »

Name of creator

(1874-1939)

Biographical history

British Egyptologist. Born, London 1874. Died, London 1939. Privately educated. Employed by P. E. Newberry in 1891 working for the Archaeological Survey. Assisted in excavations for the Egypt Exploration Fund 1892-3, was with Petrie at Amarna in 1892, ... »

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented by Mr Peter A. Clayton in December 2014, at the same time as TAA Archive iii.25.2.11.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

  • Cigarette card issued by Wills's Cigarettes from the set titled: 'Wonders of the Past: A Series of 50' (1926).
  • No. 12: 'Treasure from Tutankhamen's Tomb'.
  • Painted version based on Harry Burton photograph P0166.
  • View of one of the hippopotamus heads from the couch (137) of Tutankhamun, found in the Antechamber of the King's tomb.

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright originally Churchman's Cigarettes. Permission to reproduce may be sought from the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Existence and location of copies

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

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