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This is the most detailed scaled plan of the tomb produced during the excavation. Surveyed and drawn up by Howard Carter, it represents the small tomb in its original state, including the sealed doorways and the partition wall that closed off the Burial chamber from the Antechamber. Carter tried to record every detail, adding measurements and annotations. His working notes in faint pencil include additions and calculations, with the sweeping lines of a compass used to plot the rooms. He indicated the chipped treads of the stairs and marked a natural fissure in the limestone running diagonally across the ceiling of the Antechamber and Burial chamber. Although the plan is dated 'Dec. 1923', it was not completed before 1930, as the four sealed niches in each of the Burial chamber's walls are indicated on the plan. Carter opened the first of these niches in the presence of the Crown Prince of Sweden on 3 November 1930.
Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Oxford
Title
Howard Carter's Plan for Tutankhamun's Tomb
Date
1922–1930
Medium
graphite on paper
Measurements
H 54.3 x W 56.3 cm
Accession number
Carter MSS i.G.4
Acquisition method
gift, 1955
Work type
Architectural model or plan