TAA i.12.12

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

List of slides numbered 66 to 84 (the order used in Carter's lecture), accompanied by the corresponding Burton image numbers.

End of lecture on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Transcription

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66 / 1154. THE CENTRAL PANEL OF A CARVED IVORY BOX, from the 

               Annexe.

 

67 / 13.      THE CHARIOTS. Dismounted/<The> parts of no fewer than four dismounted

                chariots, heaped to gethersic in confusion, the plunderers having evidentl<y>

                turned them over, in their endeavour to secure the more valuable

                portions of the gold decoration which adorned them.
68 / 517.    MR MACE AND MR LUCAS CLEANING THE BODY OF CHARIOT AT                               
                THE LABORATORY.

69 / 518.    THE BODY OF ONE [OF] THE CHARIOTS, front view.
70 / 522.    DETAIL OF THE FRONT OF BODY.

71 / 520.    THE BODY OF THE SAME CHARIOT, back view.

72 / 526.    DETAIL OF THE INTERIOR.

73 / 529.    THE HEAD OF BES, an ornament from the body of the chariot

74 / 531.    THE AXLES.

75 / 558.    THE WHEELS.

76 / 566.    THE YOKES .

77 / 572.    PRISONER’S HEAD ON END OF YOKE.

78 / 567.    PRISONER’S HEAD ON END OF YOKE.

79 / 563.    A SADDLE.

80 / 562.   DETAIL OF SADDLE.
81 / 207.    GOLD TRAPPINGS FROM HARNESS.
82 / 544.   BLINKERS.

83 / 573.   COCADE OF THE ROYAL HOUSE, the end of the chariot 

                 poles.

 

When we first broke down the sealed door of the Antechamber, we had to tread 

warily, for, in a chamber, 8½ by 4 metrssic, filled with delicate objects, a single

false step or hasty movement would have caused irraparablesic dammagesic.
 

          As we entered, in front of us, in the doorway – we had to step over it to

get into the chamber, – was the most beaute/<i>ful of all objects:

 

84 / 456.   THE KING’S WISHING CUP, inscribed with titutary of

TutankhAmen, and a wish: “LIVE THY KA, MAYEST THOU SPEND MILLIONS OF YEARS,

THOU LOVER OF THEBES, SITTING WITH THY FACE TO<wards> THE NORTH WIND, THY EYES

BEHOLDING FELICITY.”

 

          An offering of the young girlish Queen to her deceased Monarch.