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Carter's Lecture Notes for Lecture on Discovery of Tutankhamun, p.12
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End of Lecture on Discovery of Tutankhamun.

Typed lecture with annotations in pencil
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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.