TAA i.12.15

Notebook
Page number
3
Caption
Carter's lecture notes for "Stockholm Lecture II. (Royal Burial and Innermost Treasury)"
Creator
Date of creation
ca. May 1930
Material
Ink
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
22.9 x 17.6 cm (h x w)
Notes

List of slides numbered 85 to 95 (the order used in Carter's lecture), accompanied by the corresponding Burton image numbers.

Carter's slide number 94 with the accompanying Burton image P0658 is mislabelled. The correct number for the image of the lamp (Carter number 173) is P0659b.col. 

Transcription

                                                                                                        (3)

 

   THE PENETRATION OF THE SEALED DOORWAY OF THE BURIAL CHAMBER

 

SLIDES

 

85 / 280. THE SEALED DOORWAY WITH ITS SENTINEL STATUES.

86 / 496. DETAIL OF ONE OF THE SENTINEL STATUES.

87 / 282. DETAIL OF THE SEALED DOOR. Note:- Small hole at the bottom
              of the door made by the plunderers and refilled and resealed by the
              necropolis officials. The seal impressions on this reclosing are

              of the royal Necropolis seal.

 

88 / 289. LORD CARNAVON PEERING THROUGH THE FIRST BREACH.

 

89 / 293.  THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT GOLDEN SHRINE WITHIN
              THE BURIAL CHAMBER.

 

90 / 509. DEMOLITION OF THE PARTITION WALL, dividing the Ante-

              chamber from the Burial Chamber.

 

91 / 603. THE GREAT GOLDEN SHRINE WITHIN THE BURIAL CHAMBER.   

 

                                        WITHIN THE BURIAL CHAMBe/<E>R.

                                                       BEFORE THE SHRINE.

 

92 / 656. A TRIPLE LAMP OR TRICERION.

93 / 657. A LAMP WITH FLANKING ORNAMENT.

94 / 658. THE LAMP LIT, showing the king and Queen in colours. 

 

                                              AT THE SIDE OF THE SHRINE.


95 / 590.  MAGIC OARS, for the King to ferry across the waters to

              the Nether World.