TAA i.3.8.14

Page number
14
Caption
Note for scientific publication on chariots
Date of creation
1946-1947
Material
Ink
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
25.9 x 20.3 cm (h x w)
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
Notes

Typewritten notes on chariots based on Howard Carter's notes, with annotations probably made by Mrs Jane Waley (Griffith Institute staff), page 5.

Transcription

                                                                                                                              5

<?> inscription:
     Carter's note "With the dismembered parts of two chariots 
     found in this chamber was a whip bearing an inscription 
     "The King's son, Captain of the Troops, Thutmes/<Dhutmose>." 
     Who was this royal prince? – who, to have been Captain of 
     the Troops during the reign of Tut'ankhamûn, could not 
     have been very young. Was he a son of Thothmes/<of Tuthmosis> IV, or
     was he a son of Amenhotep/<Amenophis> III? That problem has yet to 
     be solved. If he was a son of Thothmes/<Tuthmosis> IV, and was living 
     at the time of Tut'ankhamûn's burial, he must have reached 
     at least 60 or more years of age; whereas, if he was a son 
     of Amenhotep/<Amenophis> III, as one would suspect him to have been, he 
     would not have been more than about 35 years of age at the 
     time of Tut'ankhamûn's death. Circumstantial evidence of 
     this kind should have some bearing upon the possibility 
     of that prince's parentage."

                                                                               Vol. III p. 97