TAA i.12.06

Notebook
TAA i.12
Page number
7
Caption
Carter's lecture notes on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
Creator
Howard Carter
Date of creation
ca. 1924
Material
Ink
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
22.9 x 17.6 cm (h x w)
Notes

List of slides numbered 1 to 17 (the order used in Carter's lecture), accompanied by the corresponding Burton image numbers.

Carter references the image Burton P0296 which shows a part of the sealed doorway leading into the Annexe (Carter number 171) but he presents this image in the context of talking about the first sealed doorway (Carter number 4).

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                                                                                                          (7)

SLIDES.                                                                                                                                                                    

                                             THE VALLEY OF THE TOMB OF THE KINGS.

1 - LVIII.              THE MOUTH OF THE VALLEY.
2 - LXII.              THE ROAD WINDING BETWEEN ITS ROCKY DEFILES.                                                    
3 - LXVIII.           THE ROAD WINDING WESTWARD TOWARDS THE ROYAL CEMETERY.
4 - XII.                THE WADYEIN BRANCH.
5 - LXXIII.           THE ENTRANCE TO THE ROYAL CEMETERY.
6 - LXXVII.         THE ROYAL CEMETERY.      
7 - LVI.               THE SITE OF THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN.

                                                            THE EXCAVATIONS.

8 - XXXIV.           THE SITE WHEN WE FIRST STARTED OUR RESEARCHESsic.
9 - XL.                 BEGINNING TO OPEN UP THE UNTOUCHED STRATUM BELOW. 
<11>10 - XLII.     THE TRENCH APPROACHING THE BED-ROCK. 
<10>11 - XLIII.    BOYS CARRYING BASKETS. The method adopted in Egypt for    
                           transporting rubbish from the excavation.

                                                       THE DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB.

12 - LII.               THE WORKMAN’S HUT under which we discovered the first step
                           leading to the tomb.
13 - 1.                 THE TOP OF THE STEPS WHEN FIRST REVEALED.
14 - 3.                THE SIXTEEN STEPS LEADING TO THE SEALED DOORWAY.
15 - 274             THE SEALED DOORWAY. Note:- On this sealed doorway there are
                           distinct traces of successive re-openings and re-closings, which
                           indicate that the tomb has been subsequently entered and closed 
                           after the burial.  On the re-closed portion are impressions of 
                           the ROYAL NECROPOLIS SEAL. On the lower and untouched portion 
                           are the original seal impressions of Tutankhamen.
16 - 296              EXAMPLES OF THE SEAL IMPRESSIONS.
17 - 4.                 THE PASSAGE. 
                          Note:- The filling of this passage, like/<corresponding with> the door-
                          way, shewssic distinct traces of having been tunneled through and 
                          afterwards re-filled. The original filling comprises stone-chipsic.
                          Whereas the upper disturbed part has been filled in with flint
                          boulders evidently from the heap of boulders discovered during 
                          our researchessic in the Valley.