Exemple: <msContents> (manuscript contents)
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10 Manuscript Description
10.2 The Manuscript Description Element
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Oxford</settlement>
<repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
<idno>MS. Add. A. 61</idno>
<altIdentifier type="SC">
<idno>28843</idno>
</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<p>
<quote>Hic incipit Bruitus Anglie,</quote> the <title>De origine et gestis
Regum Angliae</title> of Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monumetensis): beg.
<quote>Cum mecum multa & de multis.</quote> In Latin.</p>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<p>
<material function="support">Parchment</material>: written in
more than one hand: 7¼ x 5⅜ in., i + 55 leaves, in double columns:
with a few coloured capitals.</p>
</physDesc>
<history>
<p>Written in <origPlace>England</origPlace> in the <origDate>13th
cent.</origDate> On fol. 54v very faint is <quote>Iste liber est fratris
guillelmi de buria de ... Roberti ordinis fratrum Pred[icatorum],</quote> 14th
cent. (?): <quote>hanauilla</quote> is written at the foot of the page (15th
cent.). Bought from the rev. W. D. Macray on March 17, 1863, for £1 10s.</p>
</history>
</msDesc>
10.2 The Manuscript Description Element
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Oxford</settlement>
<repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
<idno>MS. Add. A. 61</idno>
<altIdentifier type="SC">
<idno>28843</idno>
</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<msItem>
<author xml:lang="en">Geoffrey of Monmouth</author>
<author xml:lang="la">Galfridus Monumetensis</author>
<title type="uniform" xml:lang="la">De origine et gestis Regum Angliae</title>
<rubric xml:lang="la">Hic incipit Bruitus Anglie</rubric>
<incipit xml:lang="la">Cum mecum multa & de multis</incipit>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="codex">
<supportDesc material="perg">
<support>
<p>Parchment.</p>
</support>
<extent>i + 55 leaves <dimensions scope="all" type="leaf"
unit="inch">
<height>7¼</height>
<width>5⅜</width>
</dimensions>
</extent>
</supportDesc>
<layoutDesc>
<layout columns="2">
<p>In double columns.</p>
</layout>
</layoutDesc>
</objectDesc>
<handDesc>
<p>Written in more than one hand.</p>
</handDesc>
<decoDesc>
<p>With a few coloured capitals.</p>
</decoDesc>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin>
<p>Written in <origPlace>England</origPlace> in the <origDate notAfter="1300"
notBefore="1200">13th cent.</origDate>
</p>
</origin>
<provenance>
<p>On fol. 54v very faint is <quote xml:lang="la">Iste liber est fratris
guillelmi de buria de <gap/> Roberti ordinis fratrum
Pred<ex>icatorum</ex>
</quote>, 14th cent. (?): <quote>hanauilla</quote> is
written at the foot of the page (15th cent.).</p>
</provenance>
<acquisition>
<p>Bought from the rev. <name key="MCRAYWD">W. D. Macray</name> on <date when="1863-03-17">March 17, 1863</date>, for £1 10s.</p>
</acquisition>
</history>
</msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Oxford</settlement>
<repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
<idno type="Bod">MS Poet. Rawl. D. 169.</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<msItem>
<author>Geoffrey Chaucer</author>
<title>The Canterbury Tales</title>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc>
<p>A parchment codex of 136 folios, measuring approx
28 by 19 inches, and containing 24 quires.</p>
<p>The pages are margined and ruled throughout.</p>
<p>Four hands have been identified in the manuscript: the first 44
folios being written in two cursive anglicana scripts, while the
remainder is for the most part in a mixed secretary hand.</p>
</objectDesc>
</physDesc>
</msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<country>France</country>
<settlement>Paris</settlement>
<repository xml:lang="fr">Bibliothèque nationale de France. Réserve des livres rares></repository>
<idno>RES P- YC- 1275</idno>
<!-- dans le cas des recueils : cote uniquement sans les sous-cotes -->
<altIdentifier>
<idno>Y. 1341</idno>
<note>Cote de la Bibliothèque royale au XVIIIe s. (Catalogue de 1750).</note>
</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<msItem>
<!-- pour le traitement des recueils la solution possible est de répéter l'élément <msItem> -->
<docAuthor>
<forename>Juvénal</forename>
</docAuthor>
<docAuthor>
<forename>Perse</forename>
</docAuthor>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="main"/>
<titlePart type="sub"/>
</docTitle>
<docImprint>
<pubPlace>Venise</pubPlace>
<publisher>F. Torresani</publisher>
<!-- dans le Catalogue général: "in aedibus haeredum Aldi et Andreae soceri" -->
<publisher>G.-F. Torresani</publisher>
</docImprint>
<docDate when="1535">1535</docDate>
<note>In-8°.</note>
<!-- in-32°; in-24°; in-16°; in-8°; in-4°; in-folio; gr. folio -->
<note>Exemplaire avec rehauts peints en argent, or et bleu.</note>
<note>
<ref target="http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb31088624r">Notice bibliographique
dans le Catalogue général</ref>
</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<p>
<ref target="http://bnf.fr/ark://">Image de la reliure dans l'iconothèque</ref>
<!-- RC-B-05225 (plat sup.) -->
</p>
<objectDesc>
<supportDesc>
<extent>
<dimensions type="binding">
<height unit="mm">170</height>
<width unit="mm">98</width>
<depth unit="mm">15</depth>
</dimensions>
</extent>
</supportDesc>
</objectDesc>
<bindingDesc>
<binding contemporary="true">
<p>
<index indexName="typo_reliure">
<term>Reliure à décor</term>
</index>
<index indexName="typo_decor">
<term>Entrelacs géométriques</term>
</index> Reliure en <material>maroquin</material> brun jaspé</p>
<decoNote type="plats"> à décor d’entrelacs géométriques (structure de losange et
rectangle) complété de fers évidés.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="plat_sup">Titre <q>ivvenalis. persivs</q> et ex-libris de Jean
Grolier <q>io. grolierii et amicorvm.</q> dorés respectivement au centre et au bas
du plat supérieur. </decoNote>
<decoNote type="plat_inf">Devise de Jean Grolier<q>portio mea sit in terra
viventivm</q> dorée au centre du plat inférieur.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="dos">Dos à cinq nerfs, sans décor ; simple filet doré sur chaque
nerf et en encadrement des caissons ; passages de chaînette marqués de même.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="tranchefiles">Tranchefiles simples unicolores, vert foncé.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="coupes">Filet doré sur les coupes.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="annexes"/>
<decoNote type="tranches">Tranches dorées.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="contreplats">Contreplats en vélin.</decoNote>
<decoNote type="chasses">Filet doré sur les chasses.</decoNote>
<!-- Description des gardes : gardes blanches ; gardes couleurs (marbrées, gaufrées, peintes, dominotées, etc.) généralement suivies de gardes blanches ; dans tous les cas, spécifier le nombre de gardes (début + fin du volume)-->
<decoNote type="gardes">Gardes en papier et vélin (2+1+2 / 2+1+2) ; filigrane au
pot.<ref>Briquet N° XX</ref>
</decoNote>
<!-- Élément qui inclut aussi bien des remarques sur la couture que les charnières, claies ou modes d'attaches des plats : tous éléments de la structure dont la description est jugée utile à la description et l'identification de la reliure-->
<decoNote type="structure">Defet manuscrit utilisé comme claie au contreplat
inférieur (visible par transparence, sous la contregarde en vélin).</decoNote>
<condition>Traces de mouillures anciennes plus ou moins importantes au bas des
feuillets, qui n'ont pas affecté la reliure ; éraflure en tête du plat
inférieur.</condition>
</binding>
</bindingDesc>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin notBefore="1540-01-01"
notAfter="1547-09-15">
<p>Reliure exécutée pour Jean Grolier par Jean Picard, Paris, entre 1540 et 1547.</p>
</origin>
<provenance>
<p/>
</provenance>
<acquisition notBefore="1680-12-31"
notAfter="1724-12-31">Estampille n° 1, utilisée de
la fin du XVIIe siècle à 1724 (page de titre).</acquisition>
</history>
<additional>
<adminInfo>
<recordHist>
<source>Notice établie à partir du document original</source>
<change when="2009-10-05"
who="#Markova">Description mise à jour le <date type="crea">5 octobre 2009 </date>en vue de l'encodage en TEI des descriptions des reliure
de la Réserve des livres rares</change>
<change when="2009-06-01"
who="#Le_Bars">Description revue le <date type="maj">1er
juin 2009 </date> par Fabienne Le Bars</change>
<change when="2009-06-25"
who="#Le_Bars">Description validée le<date type="valid">25
juin 2009</date>par Fabienne Le Bars</change>
</recordHist>
</adminInfo>
</additional>
</msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>台北</settlement>
<repository>CBETA</repository>
<idno type="cbeta">Taisho Tripitaka Vol. T08, No. 230</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<msItem>
<author>唐玄奘</author>
<title>大般若波羅蜜多經電子版本</title>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc>
<p>總共有600卷</p>
<p>亦收錄於高麗藏、嘉興藏、永樂北藏、永樂南藏、乾隆藏、佛教大藏經、中華藏...等。</p>
<p>唯獨新纂卍續藏未收錄此經</p>
</objectDesc>
</physDesc>
</msDesc>
<p>A collection of Lollard sermons</p>
</msContents>
<msContents>
<p>Atlas of the world from Western Europe and Africa to Indochina, containing 27
maps and 26 tables</p>
</msContents>
<msContents>
<p>Biblia sacra: Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento, con prefacios, prólogos y
argumentos de san Jerónimo y de otros. Interpretaciones de los nombres
hebreos.</p>
</msContents>
<msItem n="1">
<locus>fols. 5r -7v</locus>
<title>An ABC</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>239</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="2">
<locus>fols. 7v -8v</locus>
<title xml:lang="fr">Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>3747</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="3">
<locus>fol. 8v</locus>
<title>Truth</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>809</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="4">
<locus>fols. 8v-10v</locus>
<title>Birds Praise of Love</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>1506</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="5">
<locus>fols. 10v -11v</locus>
<title xml:lang="la">De amico ad amicam</title>
<title xml:lang="la">Responcio</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>16 & 19</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="6">
<locus>fols. 14r-126v</locus>
<title>Troilus and Criseyde</title>
<note>Bk. 1:71-Bk. 5:1701, with additional losses due to mutilation
throughout</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<summary>A collection of Lollard sermons</summary>
<msItem n="1">
<locus>fol. 4r-8r</locus>
<title>3rd Sunday Before Lent</title>
</msItem>
<msItem n="2">
<locus>fol. 9r-16v</locus>
<title>Sexagesima</title>
</msItem>
</msContents>
10.6.1 The <msItem> and <msItemStruct> Elements
<msItem defective="true">
<locus from="1r" to="9v">1r-9v</locus>
<title>Knýtlinga saga</title>
<msItem n="1.1">
<locus from="1r:1" to="2v:30">1r:1-2v:30</locus>
<incipit defective="true">dan<ex>n</ex>a a engl<ex>an</ex>di</incipit>
<explicit defective="true">en meðan <expan>haraldr</expan> hein hafði
k<ex>onung</ex>r v<am>
<g ref="http://www.example.com/abbrevs.xml#er"/>
</am>it
yf<ex>ir</ex> danmork</explicit>
</msItem>
<!-- msItems 1.2 to 1.4 -->
</msItem>
</msContents>
10.6.3 Rubrics, Incipits, Explicits, and Other Quotations from the Text
<msItem>
<locus>f. 1-223</locus>
<author>Radulphus Flaviacensis</author>
<title>Expositio super Leviticum </title>
<incipit>
<locus>f. 1r</locus> Forte Hervei monachi</incipit>
<explicit>
<locus>f. 223v</locus> Benedictio salis et aquae</explicit>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem n="1" defective="false"
class="#law">
<locus from="1v" to="71v">1v-71v</locus>
<title type="uniform">Jónsbók</title>
<incipit>Magnus m<ex>ed</ex> guds miskun Noregs k<ex>onungu</ex>r</incipit>
<explicit>en<ex>n</ex> u<ex>ir</ex>da þo t<ex>il</ex> fullra aura</explicit>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem>
<title>Beljakovski sbornik</title>
<filiation type="protograph">Bulgarian</filiation>
<filiation type="antigraph">Middle Bulgarian</filiation>
<filiation type="apograph">
<ref target="#DN17">Dujchev N 17</ref>
</filiation>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<!-- ... -->
<msDesc xml:id="DN17">
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Faraway</settlement>
</msIdentifier>
<!-- ... -->
</msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>元豐類稿</title>
<filiation type="protograph">元大德八年丁思敬南豐刊本</filiation>
<filiation type="antigraph">王文進《文祿堂訪書記》</filiation>
<filiation type="apograph">清內府《天祿琳琅書目》
<ref target="#zh-tw_DN17"/>
</filiation>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<!-- ... -->
<msItem>
<!-- pour le traitement des recueils la solution possible est de répéter l'élément <msItem> -->
<docAuthor>
<forename>Guillaume de Lorris </forename>
</docAuthor>
<docAuthor>
<forename>Jean de Meung</forename>
</docAuthor>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="main">Le Rommant de la rose</titlePart>
<titlePart type="sub"/>
</docTitle>
<docImprint>
<pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace>
<publisher>Antoine Vérard</publisher>
</docImprint>
<docDate when="1497">1497 ou 1498</docDate>
<note>
<date notBefore="1497-01-01"
notAfter="1498-12-31"/>
</note>
<note>in-2°.</note>
<!-- in-32°; in-24°; in-16°; in-8°; in-4°; in-folio; gr. folio -->
<note>Exemplaire sur vélin, enluminé, « vraisemblablement dans l’atelier d’Antoine
Vérard » <ref target="#fr_bib06">(Charon 1988, n° 3)</ref>
</note>
<note>
<ref target="http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb305575966">Notice bibliographique
dans le Catalogue général</ref>
</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem>
<!-- pour le traitement des recueils la solution possible est de répéter l'élément <msItem> -->
<docAuthor>
<surname>Longus</surname>
</docAuthor>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="main">Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé</titlePart>
</docTitle>
<docImprint>
<pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace>
<publisher>[Jacques Quillau]</publisher>
</docImprint>
<docDate when="1718">1718</docDate>
<note>in-8°.</note>
<!-- in-32°; in-24°; in-16°; in-8°; in-4°; in-folio; gr. folio -->
<note>Exemplaire réglé.</note>
<note>
<ref target="http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30831232s">Notice bibliographique
dans le Catalogue général</ref>
</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem n="1">
<locus>fols. 109-119</locus>
<title>金剛般若經依天親菩薩論贊略釋秦本義記卷上</title>
<bibl>
<title>大正新脩大藏經第85冊</title>
<biblScope>10</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="2">
<locus>fols. 120-129</locus>
<title xml:lang="zh-TW">金剛經疏</title>
<bibl>
<title>大正新脩大藏經第85冊</title>
<biblScope>10</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="3">
<locus>fol. 1-1070</locus>
<title>大般若波羅蜜多經</title>
<bibl>
<title>大正新脩大藏經第5冊</title>
<biblScope>1070</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="4">
<locus>fols. 771-775</locus>
<title>佛說能斷金剛般若波羅蜜多經</title>
<bibl>
<title>大正新脩大藏經第8冊</title>
<biblScope>6</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="5">
<locus>fols. 752-757</locus>
<bibl>
<title>金剛般若波羅蜜經</title>
<title>大正新脩大藏經第8冊</title>
<biblScope>6</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="6">
<locus>fols. 1-8</locus>
<title>梁朝傅大士頌金剛經</title>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem n="1">
<locus>fols. 5r-7v</locus>
<title>An ABC</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>239</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="2">
<locus>fols. 7v-8v</locus>
<title xml:lang="frm">Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>3747</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="3">
<locus>fol. 8v</locus>
<title>Truth</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>809</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="4">
<locus>fols. 8v-10v</locus>
<title>Birds Praise of Love</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>1506</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="5">
<locus>fols. 10v-11v</locus>
<title xml:lang="la">De amico ad amicam</title>
<title xml:lang="la">Responcio</title>
<bibl>
<title>IMEV</title>
<biblScope>16 & 19</biblScope>
</bibl>
</msItem>
<msItem n="6">
<locus>fols. 14r-126v</locus>
<title>Troilus and Criseyde</title>
<note>Bk. 1:71-Bk. 5:1701, with additional losses due to mutilation throughout</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
<msItem>
<!-- pour le traitement des recueils la solution possible est de répéter l'élément <msItem> -->
<docAuthor>
<surname>Longus</surname>
</docAuthor>
<docTitle>
<titlePart type="main">Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé</titlePart>
</docTitle>
<docImprint>
<pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace>
<publisher>[Jacques Quillau]</publisher>
</docImprint>
<docDate when="1718">1718</docDate>
<note>in-8°.</note>
<!-- in-32°; in-24°; in-16°; in-8°; in-4°; in-folio; gr. folio -->
<note>Exemplaire réglé.</note>
<note>
<ref target="http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30831232s">Notice bibliographique
dans le Catalogue général</ref>
</note>
</msItem>
</msContents>
xml:lang="en" type="composite">
<msIdentifier>
<settlement key="tgn_7007868">Brussels</settlement>
<repository>Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België / Bibliothèque royale de
Belgique</repository>
<idno>ms. 10066-77</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary xml:lang="la">Miscellany of various texts; Prudentius,
Psychomachia; Physiologus de natura animantium</summary>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="composite_manuscript"/>
</physDesc>
<msPart>
<msIdentifier>
<idno>ms. 10066-77 ff. 140r-156v</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary xml:lang="la">Physiologus</summary>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msContents>
</msPart>
<msPart>
<msIdentifier>
<idno>ms. 10066-77 ff. 112r-139r</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary xml:lang="la">Prudentius, Psychomachia</summary>
<textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
</msContents>
</msPart>
</msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Amiens</settlement>
<repository>Bibliothèque Municipale</repository>
<idno>MS 3</idno>
<msName>Maurdramnus Bible</msName>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary xml:lang="lat">Miscellany of various texts; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Physiologus de natura animantium</summary>
<textLang mainLang="lat">Latin</textLang>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<objectDesc form="composite_manuscript"/>
</physDesc>
<msPart>
<msIdentifier>
<idno>ms. 10066-77 ff. 140r-156v</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
<summary xml:lang="lat">Physiologus</summary>
<textLang mainLang="lat">Latin</textLang>
</msContents>
</msPart>
<msPart>
<msIdentifier>
<altIdentifier>
<idno>MS 6</idno>
</altIdentifier>
</msIdentifier>
<!-- other information specific to this part here -->
</msPart>
<!-- more parts here -->
</msDesc>
<msIdentifier>
<msName xml:lang="la">Codex Suprasliensis</msName>
</msIdentifier>
<msFrag>
<msIdentifier>
<settlement>Ljubljana</settlement>
<repository>Narodna in univerzitetna knjiznica</repository>
<idno>MS Kopitar 2</idno>
</msIdentifier>
<msContents>
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13 Names, Dates, People, and Places
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<objectName xml:lang="en">Mask of Tutankhamun</objectName>
<idno type="carter">256a</idno>
<idno type="JournalD'Entrée">60672</idno>
<idno type="exhibition">220</idno>
<institution>Museum of Egyptian Antiquities</institution>
<address>
<street>15 Meret Basha</street>
<district>Ismailia</district>
<settlement>Cairo</settlement>
<country>Egypt</country>
<location>
<geo>30.047778, 31.233333</geo>
</location>
</address>
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<msContents>
<p>The back and shoulders of the mask is inscribed with a protective spell in Egyptian hieroglyphs formed of ten
vertical and horizontal lines. This spell first appeared on masks in the Middle Kingdom at least 500 years
before Tutankhamun, and comes from chapter 151 of the <title>Book of the Dead</title>.</p>
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<physDesc>
<p>The mask of Tutankhamun is 54cm x 39.3cm x 49cm. It is constructed from two layers of high-karat gold that
varies in thickness from 1.5-3mm. It weighs approximately 10.23kg and x-ray crystallography shows that it is
composed of two alloys of gold with a lighter 18.4 karat shade being used for the face and neck while a heavier
22.5 karat gold was used for the rest of the mask.</p>
<p>In the mask Tutankhamun wears a nemes headcloth which has the royal insignia of a cobra (Wadjet) and vulture
(Nekhbet) on it. These are thought respectively to symbolise Tutankhamun's rule of both Lower Egypt and Upper
Egypt. His ears are pierced for earrings. The mask has rich inlays of coloured glass and gemstones, including
lapis lazuli surrounding the eye and eyebrows, quartz for the eyes, obsidian for the pupils. The broad collar is
made up of carnelian, feldspar, turquoise, amazonite, faience and other stones.</p>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin>
<p>The mask of Tutankhamun was created in <origPlace>Egypt</origPlace> around <origDate when="-1323" type="circa">1323 BC</origDate>. It is a death mask of the 18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun
who reigned 1332–1323 BC.</p>
</origin>
<provenance>
<p>The mask of Tutankhamun was found in his burial chamber at Theban Necropolis in the Valley of the Kings in
1922. On 28 October 1925 the excavation team led by English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the heavy
sarcophagus and three coffins and were the first people in around 3,250 years to see the mask of Tutankhamun.
Carter wrote in his diary: <quote> The pins removed, the lid was raised. The penultimate scene was disclosed –
a very neatly wrapped mummy of the young king, with golden mask of sad but tranquil expression, symbolizing
Osiris … the mask bears that god's attributes, but the likeness is that of Tut.Ankh.Amen – placid and
beautiful, with the same features as we find upon his statues and coffins. The mask has fallen slightly
back, thus its gaze is straight up to the heavens. </quote>
</p>
</provenance>
<acquisition> In December 1925, the mask was removed from the tomb, placed in a crate and transported 635
kilometres (395 mi) to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it remains on public display. </acquisition>
</history>
<additional>
<adminInfo>
<custodialHist>
<custEvent when="1944">When it was discovered in 1925, the 2.5kg narrow gold beard was no longer attached to
the mask and was reattached to the chin by use of a wooden dowel in 1944.</custEvent>
<custEvent when="2014-08"> In August 2014 when the mask was removed from its display case for cleaning, the
beard fell off again. Those working in the museum unadvisedly used a quick-drying epoxy to attempt to fix
it, but left the beard off-centre. </custEvent>
<custEvent when="2015-01">The damage was noticed and repaired in January 2015 by a German-Egyptian team who
used beeswax, a material known to be used as adhesives by the ancient Egyptians.</custEvent>
</custodialHist>
</adminInfo>
</additional>
</object>
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<objectName xml:lang="en">Mask of Tutankhamun</objectName>
<idno type="carter">256a</idno>
<idno type="JournalD'Entrée">60672</idno>
<idno type="exhibition">220</idno>
<institution>Museum of Egyptian Antiquities</institution>
<address>
<street>15 Meret Basha</street>
<district>Ismailia</district>
<settlement>Cairo</settlement>
<country>Egypt</country>
<location>
<geo>30.047778, 31.233333</geo>
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</address>
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<msContents>
<p>The back and shoulders of the mask is inscribed with a protective spell in Egyptian hieroglyphs formed of ten
vertical and horizontal lines. This spell first appeared on masks in the Middle Kingdom at least 500 years
before Tutankhamun, and comes from chapter 151 of the <title>Book of the Dead</title>.</p>
</msContents>
<physDesc>
<p> The mask of Tutankhamun is 54cm x 39.3cm x 49cm. It is constructed from two layers of high-karat gold that
varies in thickness from 1.5-3mm. It weighs approximately 10.23kg and x-ray crystallography shows that it is
composed of two alloys of gold with a lighter 18.4 karat shade being used for the face and neck while a heavier
22.5 karat gold was used for the rest of the mask.</p>
<p>In the mask Tutankhamun wears a nemes headcloth which has the royal insignia of a cobra (Wadjet) and vulture
(Nekhbet) on it. These are thought respectively to symbolise Tutankhamun's rule of both Lower Egypt and Upper
Egypt. His ears are pierced for earrings. The mask has rich inlays of coloured glass and gemstones, including
lapis lazuli surrounding the eye and eyebrows, quartz for the eyes, obsidian for the pupils. The broad collar is
made up of carnelian, feldspar, turquoise, amazonite, faience and other stones.</p>
</physDesc>
<history>
<origin>
<p>The mask of Tutankhamun was created in <origPlace>Egypt</origPlace> around <origDate when="-1323" type="circa">1323 BC</origDate>. It is a death mask of the 18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun
who reigned 1332–1323 BC. </p>
</origin>
<provenance>
<p>The mask of Tutankhamun was found in his burial chamber at Theban Necropolis in the Valley of the Kings in
1922. On 28 October 1925 the excavation team led by English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the heavy
sarcophagus and three coffins and were the first people in around 3,250 years to see the mask of Tutankhamun.
Carter wrote in his diary: <quote> The pins removed, the lid was raised. The penultimate scene was disclosed –
a very neatly wrapped mummy of the young king, with golden mask of sad but tranquil expression, symbolizing
Osiris … the mask bears that god's attributes, but the likeness is that of Tut.Ankh.Amen – placid and
beautiful, with the same features as we find upon his statues and coffins. The mask has fallen slightly
back, thus its gaze is straight up to the heavens. </quote>
</p>
</provenance>
<acquisition> In December 1925, the mask was removed from the tomb, placed in a crate and transported 635
kilometres (395 mi) to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it remains on public display. </acquisition>
</history>
<additional>
<adminInfo>
<custodialHist>
<custEvent when="1944">When it was discovered in 1925, the 2.5kg narrow gold beard was no longer attached to
the mask and was reattached to the chin by use of a wooden dowel in 1944.</custEvent>
<custEvent when="2014-08"> In August 2014 when the mask was removed from its display case for cleaning, the
beard fell off again. Those working in the museum unadvisedly used a quick-drying epoxy to attempt to fix
it, but left the beard off-centre. </custEvent>
<custEvent when="2015-01">The damage was noticed and repaired in January 2015 by a German-Egyptian team who
used beeswax, a material known to be used as adhesives by the ancient Egyptians.</custEvent>
</custodialHist>
</adminInfo>
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