Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- INTRODUCTION. REMARKS UPON EGYPTIAN ART
- CHAPTER 1 TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- CHAPTER 2 THE TOMB AND BURIAL CHAMBER
- CHAPTER 3 CLEARING THE BURIAL CHAMBER AND OPENING THE SARCOPHAGUS
- CHAPTER 4 THE STATE CHARIOTS
- CHAPTER 5 THE OPENING OF THE THREE COFFINS (SEASON 1925–26)
- CHAPTER 6 POINTS OF INTEREST IN EGYPTIAN BURIAL CUSTOMS
- CHAPTER 7 THE EXAMINATION OF THE ROYAL MUMMY
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I REPORT UPON THE EXAMINATION OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN'S MUMMY
- APPENDIX II THE CHEMISTRY OF THE TOMB
- APPENDIX III REPORT ON THE FLORAL WREATHS FOUND IN THE COFFINS OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- APPENDIX IV NOTES ON OBJECTS FROM THE TOMB
- APPENDIX V REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION OF SPECIMENS FROM THE TOMB OF KING TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- APPENDIX VI DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECTS. PLATES XXXVII-LXXXVIII
- INDEX
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APPENDIX VI - DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECTS. PLATES XXXVII-LXXXVIII
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- INTRODUCTION. REMARKS UPON EGYPTIAN ART
- CHAPTER 1 TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- CHAPTER 2 THE TOMB AND BURIAL CHAMBER
- CHAPTER 3 CLEARING THE BURIAL CHAMBER AND OPENING THE SARCOPHAGUS
- CHAPTER 4 THE STATE CHARIOTS
- CHAPTER 5 THE OPENING OF THE THREE COFFINS (SEASON 1925–26)
- CHAPTER 6 POINTS OF INTEREST IN EGYPTIAN BURIAL CUSTOMS
- CHAPTER 7 THE EXAMINATION OF THE ROYAL MUMMY
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I REPORT UPON THE EXAMINATION OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN'S MUMMY
- APPENDIX II THE CHEMISTRY OF THE TOMB
- APPENDIX III REPORT ON THE FLORAL WREATHS FOUND IN THE COFFINS OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- APPENDIX IV NOTES ON OBJECTS FROM THE TOMB
- APPENDIX V REPORT ON THE EXAMINATION OF SPECIMENS FROM THE TOMB OF KING TUT-ANKH-AMEN
- APPENDIX VI DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECTS. PLATES XXXVII-LXXXVIII
- INDEX
- Plate section
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Summary
PLATE XXXVII
THE BODY OF THE FIRST STATE CHARIOT
Built of bent-wood and completely overlaid with burnished thin sheet-gold upon gesso. The margins, etc., are encrusted with semi-precious stones and polychrome glass.
On the front (A) the embossed ornament comprises: the names of Tut-ankh-Amen, a central vertical band of floral design, and side panels of elaborate coil-pattern. On the interior (B) is a panel of cartouches of the king with the symbolical “Union of the Two Kingdoms” to which underneath are bound captives of the North and South. Below is a magnificent frieze of alien prisoners, with arms lashed behind them, kneeling before the all powerful human-headed lion (sphinx) Tut-ankh-Amen. Upon the foot-rail are collars of encrusted gold-work, and at either side at the juncture of the framework of the “body” are highly ornamented bosses surmounted by grotesque heads of the god Bes.
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- The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-AmenDiscovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, pp. 217 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1927