Howard Carter's drawing of The Festival Procession of Opet
These drawings by Howard Carter show the Festival Procession of Opet in the Luxor Temple. They
were commissioned by Alan H. Gardiner, and this series of ink and pencil line-drawings were created by Carter
during 1916-17, but were never completed by him and were left unpublished until their presentation here. The images
are of the reliefs in the Colonnade Hall and are composed from accurate scale drawings which we have digitally
joined together below.
It is intended to add further scans of individual sketches, photographs and correspondence relating to this
material in due course.
Reconstruction of the West Wall
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© Griffith Institute Archive, Gardiner MSS. 11.1-7
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One of the drawings showing the barques of Khonsu and Mut
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© Griffith Institute Archive, Gardiner MSS. 11.2
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PM ii2.314-15(77)-(81).
The complete publication of the Luxor Temple Colonnade can be found in the impressive volume published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: The Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall, Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple 1, OIP 112, Chicago, 1994.
