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Titel : Papers And Photographs Of The Egyptologist Rex Engelbach
Anmerkung : CARTER ARRIVED HERE YESTERDAY...I HOPE ONE WILL FIND SOMETHING...YOURS V. TRULY CARNARVON: papers and photographs of the Egyptologist Reginald (Rex) Engelbach (1888-1946). Like Howard Carter and many of the outstanding Egyptologists of their generation, Engelbach trained under Flinders Petrie, acting as his assistant from 1910 to 1914, and in 1918. He is today best known for his discovery of the Unfinished Obelisk at Aswan in 1922 and for being, as Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Upper Egypt, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's immediate official superior when they discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun that same year. From 1928 to 1941 he was Keeper of the Cairo Museum, and, as well as holding this central position, issued many publications, including the highly regarded Ancient Egyptian Masonry which he wrote with Somers Clarke (see the letters and contract above).Manuscript material by Howard Carter and Carnarvon rarely appears for sale: only two letters by Carter is recorded as having been sold at auction (one sending a signed copy of his book fetching £520 in 1998, the other, discussing the excavation, £8,000 in 2007), while the only item by Carnarvon to have appeared is his account of the discovery, sold for £1,700 in 1979. No letters by Aurel Stein, also represented in this archive and whose excavation of the lost cities of the Silk Road rivals Carter and Carnarvon's discovery, are recorded as having appeared for sale.Bonhams 3, Auktionator, London, UK
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Verkaufstitel : India and Beyond, Antiquities, Greece and the Near East
Verkaufsdatum : 31/03/2009
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Auktionsreferenz : Live Sale