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HB06 :: arkeologi, Tutankhamun

Object description

Bild från arbetet vid Tutankhamuns grav med Howard Carter i ledningen.

"The actual opening of the doors of the fourth shrine. Mr Carter is kneeling and Mr Callender standing. This was the decisive moment before the revelation of the sarcophagus; for the fact that upon the doors of this fourth shrine were depicted figures of protective goddesses, with outstretched wings, was evidence that the heart of the nest of shrines had been reached."

Data elements

Photograph Number

HB06

Country - Photographed in

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Photographed in

Egypten

Place - Photographed in

Konungarnas dal

Material, Swedish

Digitalt

Acquisition

Ulla-Stina William Olsson [?]

Description, Swedish

Bild från arbetet vid Tutankhamuns grav med Howard Carter i ledningen.

Name - Photographer

Burton, Harry (1879 - 1940), Photographer

Description: Harry Burton (1879–1940) was an English Egyptologist and archaeological photographer. Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, to journeyman cabinet maker William Burton and Ann Hufton, he is best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. His most famous photographs are the 1400 he took documenting Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The Times published 142 of these images on 21 February 1923. He remained in Egypt after the tomb's excavations, dying there in 1940. He is buried in the American Cemetery in Asyut.
Work
He trained in Florence, Italy and worked in Egypt from 1910 for Theodore M. Davis. From 1914 he worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian Expedition, often with Herbert E. Winlock. He was loaned by the museum to Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon to record the findings of the British excavation team at the tomb of Tutankhamun. He spent eight years photographing Tutankhamun's tomb and its artefacts. Burton experimented with documentary film recording in the 1920s, including several hours documenting the Tutankhamun excavation.
In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a special exhibition focusing on Burton: The Pharaoh's Photographer: Harry Burton, Tutankhamun, and the Metropolitan's Egyptian Expedition. Beginning 26 May 2006, the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute began an exhibit of Burton's Tutankhamun photographs called Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamu: The Harry Burton Photographs.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Previously

Underbara ting

Description: Wonderful tings
Photo exhibition on the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb: 29/9 - 31/12
The exhibition is open the same hours as the museum.
Autumn 1922 encountered archaeologist Howard Carter, a staircase down to the grave, the door of which was fitted with the royal seal of nekropolens. The tomb belonged to a then relatively unknown pharaoh, Tutankhamen. When Carter was able to see into the grave he must have said, "Yes, I see wonderful things!" The discovery marked the beginning of a great interest in Egypt over the world. The excavation was documented by the photographer Harry Burton, whose exciting images Medelhavsmuseet show in the fall.
Take the opportunity to listen to the lecture series - Autumn in the Valley of the Kings given in six parts:
29/9 Where no neither heard nor saw
13/10 A guidebook to life everlasting
27/10 What happened to Neferetiti?
10/11 Wonderful Thing
24/11 Tutankhamen heirs
8/12 A landscape for the living and the dead
Time - Start: 2016-09-292016-09-29
Time - End: 2016-12-312016-12-31

Underbara ting (2022)

Description: Wonderful tings
Photo exhibition on the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb: (this was on display for the first time in 2016)
Autumn 1922 encountered archaeologist Howard Carter, a staircase down to the grave, the door of which was fitted with the royal seal of nekropolens. The tomb belonged to a then relatively unknown pharaoh, Tutankhamen. When Carter was able to see into the grave he must have said, "Yes, I see wonderful things!" The discovery marked the beginning of a great interest in Egypt over the world. The excavation was documented by the photographer Harry Burton, whose exciting images Medelhavsmuseet show in the fall.
Time - Start: 2022-09-202022-09-20
Time - End: 2023-03-052023-03-05

Comments

repro

Keyword, Swedish

arkeologi; Tutankhamun

Source - http

commons.wikimedia.org

Kind

svartvitt

Time - Photograph

1920-tal

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