17 November 1926

TELEGRAMS                                                                  LUXOR

LUXOR                                                                    UPPER EGYPT

                                             Nov. 17. 1926.

Dear Gardiner,

          Many thanks for yours of the 6^th. 
I am glad to hear you are coming out this winter,

as there will be several important hieratic dockets

requiring your skill. Also some dates which are 

not at all clear.

          The store room is proving of great interest. 

Especially from religious import and funeral cult

point of view. The black chests prove to contain
statuettes of the king in various forms, holy duties,

pursuits, etc., together with various gods and standards,

some of which I am not at all familiar with:

for instance [ 𓂀 ], [ 𓂀 ], [ 𓂀 ] and 

[ 𓂀 ]. Can you give me some information of 

their afrîts? The latter obviously Shu but I do not
understand the ending (?) region ḥr. is Gmḥsw of the

10^th Lower Eg. Nome? Etc.

The other boxes contain masses of jewellery and I seem to

have got the greater part, if not all, of the cult object

of Anubis. [ 𓂀 ] wḥm as an amulet seems

new and containing a puzzle to me – any light

you can through^sic upon the subject will deeply oblige,

for an intelligent description. From the 

material so far removed to the lab. one is becoming

quite a part master in trituration and bewing!

          With best wishes & regards to you

                   With yours truly

                                  Howard Carter

I am looking forward to your Grammar. Vol. II.

of Tut.Ankh.Amen will be out in January – 

where would you like your copy sent? H.C.