Ronald Wrote:
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> Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> > Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > > And absolutely NO ONE noticed until
> NOW???
> > >
> > > Am I alone in wondering what the
> hell????
> >
> > Hey, you have to recall what was the purpose
> of
> > 19th and early 20th century Egyptologists.
> Recall
> > that most 19th century excavators were in for
> the
> > "big haul" - gold, silver, and that sort of
> thing.
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>
>
> > Items of everyday life certainly didn't
> interest
> > them at all - and that apparently included
> > Carter.
>
>
>
> Katherine,
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>
> I do not agree with this. Carter made a very
> detailed inventory of the tomb, it took him years.
> In this, he was on the contrary completely
> different from his predecessing, contemporaneous
> and even, for some time, succeeding colleagues.
If you'll notice my second post in this thread, I gave an example where he noted an object, but then never actually followed up with recording it properly (i.e.,
Aprons -
15 of them, to be exact). One can list an item, as Carter did, but still not record it properly, insofar as to let one know what they were (a
thorough description is what I mean here), what became of them, etc.
I think O'Connor's quote puts the matter into perspective:
Egypt is overflowing with antiquities, and the original finders of Tut's tomb may have thought some of the less spectacular objects were not worth taking to the Cairo museum, O'Connor said. More surprising is that the boxes of seals in the tomb itself were somehow overlooked, he said.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 September 2007
There's a good chance the jars of fruit were listed in a Carter inventory, but their full description and/or
final disposition was never recorded by Carter - for that, it's just as likely that Carter did not record properly those "items of everyday life" because he placed no value upon them.
I stand by my comments.
Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom