Conservation of Tutankhamun's 'Guardian Statue'

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This photograph was taken between the 6th and 16 January 1924 by the official Tutankhamun excavation photographer Harry Burton, who captures Arthur Mace (standing on the table) and Alfred Lucas (seated on the right) posed in the act of working on one of Tutankhamun's so-called 'guardian statues', after it had been transported to the 'laboratory, set up in the nearby tomb of King Seti I. This statue, one of a pair, was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in November 1922 in the antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. Carter recorded that the two statues were found 'facing each other like sentinels' on either side of the king's burial chamber's sealed doorway.

Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Oxford

Title

Conservation of Tutankhamun's 'Guardian Statue'

Date

1924

Medium

negative

Measurements

H 23.9 x W 17.9 cm

Accession number

Burton p0493

Acquisition method

gift, 1946

Work type

Photograph

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