TAA i.3.22.72
Typewritten letter to Howard Carter regarding seal impressions from the doorways. Lord Carnarvon is also mentioned on this page.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
The University of Chicago
The Oriental Institute
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Cairo, Jan. 15, 1923
Dear Carter:-
I am sorry that our difficulties in getting settled in
Cairo have delayed these materials you wanted. I enclose the
copies of the four seals from the three doorways.
Since I left Luxor I have been thinking of another an-
gle which may increase the importance of Tutenkhamon from an
international point of view. You will recall that the Amarna
Letters are most of them addressed to:
Nimmuriya, and
Napkhuriya.
These have been heretofore equated as fox[?]/<llo>ws:
Nimmuriya......Nb-ma'ct-Rc, or Amenhotep III
Napkhuriya.....Nfr-hprw-Rc, or Amenhotep IV.
Now it is obvious that the cuneiform Napkhuriya is a better
equivalent of Nb-hprw-Rc, than of Nfr-hprw-Rc. In other words
some of the Amarna letters may have been addressed to Tutenkh-
amon, and we may yet know more of his history than we do now. All
the Napkhi/<u>riya letters must be examined anew to see if they can
be made to fit chronologically and otherwise into the reign of
Tutenkhamon. The splendor of his tomb certainly doesn't look like
poverty and decay!
We have begun the Coffin Texts and find it a very hard task;
but I will knock off for the trip to Luxor whenever I receive
yout/<r> telegram. I have forwarded the article I wrote for Harper's
Magazine to Carnarvon, in order to avoid all misunderstanding or
complication in the matter.
With all good wishes, I am
Very sincerely yours,
James H. Breasted
Mr Howard Carter, Address: Villa Mandofia,
Gurna, Garden City,
Luxor, Cairo
Upper Egypt