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First View of the Antechamber

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Harry Burton's photograph captures part of the scene that met Howard Carter's eyes when he peered into the tomb of Tutankhamun for the first time on 26th November 1922. Taken close to the position where Carter and Lord Carnarvon first looked into the Antechamber, this view shows some of the King's possessions in place along the room's west wall. Carter described this first encounter in his excavation journal, recording 'gilded couches in strange forms, lion-headed, Hathor-headed, and beast infernal; exquisitely painted, inlaid and ornamental caskets, flowers; alabaster vases, some beautifully executed of lotus and papyrus device; strange black shrines with a gilded monster snake appearing from within; quite ordinary looking white chests; finely carved chairs; a golden inlaid throne; a heap of large curious white oviform boxes … stools of all shapes and design, of both common and rare materials … the first impression of which suggested the property-room of an opera house of a vanished civilization'.

Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Oxford

Title

First View of the Antechamber

Date

1922 & 2015

Medium

digital scan

Accession number

Burton p0009 colour

Acquisition method

original glass plate negative, gift, 1946; digital scan, commissioned and presented to the Griffith Institute, 2015

Work type

Digital art

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Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Sackler Library, 1 St John Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2LG England

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