TAA i.3.14.27

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EGYPT

Dawawin Post Office,

CAIRO (Egypt).

Telegraphic address: “GEOSURVEY, CAIRO”

PLEASE ADDRESS COMMUNICATIONS

TO THE DIRECTOR

NOT TO INDIVIDUALS

AND QUOTE THIS No. 757/30.

                                                     Cairo, 9^th December, 1930

Howard Carter, Esq., 

            Luxor,

            Upper Egypt.

Dear Howard Carter,

 

            Many thanks for your kind reply to my letter,

giving me permission to reproduce all the objects mentioned.

and in addition the gold coffin. I am grateful to you

both for the permission and the kind way in which you have

granted it.

            My Note on Gold includes a History of Mining and

the Use of Gold in Egypt from prehistoric Times to the Arab

Conquest. Also an account of the Ancient Mine Plan of the 

Turin Papyrus, and continues with notes on the evidence of

the obtaining of gold from the Eastern Desert as recorded in

the Inscriptions. This you will be familiar with, and starts

with the record carved on the jambs of the cliff-tomb of

Amenemhat at Beni Hassan (XII dynasty). I am having a plate

showing the inscription in the Medinet Habu Temple Treasury

which records the sources of the gold used in Egypt.

            I then give a brief historical account of the Employ-

ment of Gold in Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, helped by Lucas

and Newberry, personal examination in the Museum, and the works 

of Mrs Ranson Williams and Vernier. A section follows on the

“Later History of Gold in Egypt”.