Five years' explorations at Thebes : a record of work done 1907-1911 / by the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, with chapters by F. Ll. Griffith, George Legrain, George Möller, Percy E. Newberry and Wilhelm Spiegelberg ; with seventy-nine plates and frontispiece
Five Years' Explorations at Thebes is an archaeological excavation report by the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, with chapters by several Egyptologists, published in London and Oxford in 1912 for scholars and museum readers. Its plates are photographs of tomb walls, wooden coffins, painted funerary objects and pottery, shown in plain grey tones that suggest a field record more than decoration. A designer might take from them the layered, weathered textures of old wood, plaster and clay, and the repeated forms of coffins and vessels arranged in rows.
