Box
Photographer Harry Burton British
Not on view
Many of Tutankhamun’s seventy-one boxes likely came from the palace, where they were used to pack his belongings for the tomb. The table-shaped example here contained headrests when found but was labeled for linen. Howard Carter, the director of the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, thought that such mismatches happened when priests hastily cleaned up after ancient thieves. A more recent interpretation suggests that the boxes were reused and repacked but not relabeled during the preparations for the funeral.
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