Item TAA iii.46.2.1-2 - Tourist photographs: Tutankhamun-related

2 photographs

Acquired in an online auction by Elizabeth Fleming.

Presented by Elizabeth Fleming in July 2021.

• 2 photographs taken by tourists visiting Luxor in 1923.
• TAA iii.46.2.1
  • Three tourists, one man and two women, sitting on the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, with two Egyptian police officers (1 standing on either side of the seated group).
  • Manuscript note on verso, "Outside the new Tomb. The Valley of the Kings - 1923."
• TAA iii.46.2.2
  • Female tourist, also part of the group in the other photograph, standing next to the head of a colossus of Ramesses II in the Ramesseum.
  • Manuscript note on verso, "The Ramesseum - Thebes - 1923."
• The identities of the people in the photographs and the owner of the pictures are all unknown.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• TAA iii.46.2.1: 6.7 x 11.3 cm
• TAA iii.46.2.2: 11.3 x 6.8 cm

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.