TAA i.3.22.73.verso

Caption
Note for scientific publication on the seal impressions
Date of creation
3 January 1923
Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
22.7 x 18.2 cm (h x w)
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
Notes

Typewritten letter to Howard Carter regarding article for Harper's magazine and thoughts on seal impressions. 

Transcription

          Since seeing you I have been thinking further about the door seals. 

The additional seal with the insignia of the necropolis administration, 

which we found on the third (still unopened door), containing as it does also 

the cartouche of Tutenkhamon himself, is rather significant; for it shows 

beyond a doubt that his people were using the necropolis seal in making the 

original closure of the door. Hence the occurrence of this seal anywhere in 

this tomb is less likely to be post-Empire in date. It all fits in with the 

com<p>lete escape of this tomb from post-Empire destruction which overtook all 

the rest. It is the sole tomb that has so escaped. What magnificent luck 

that you should have found it! I feel like congratulating you all over 

again!

 

          Greatly appreciating anything you can do in the way of photographs, 

and in keen anticipation of the great opening, I am, with kindest regards, 

in which all the party join,
 

                                                  Very cordially yours,

                                                            James H. Breasted.
 

P.S. Address:
          Care Thos. Cook & Son,
                     CAIRO

          We shall reach Cairo next Tuesday. Would be glad to find photographs 

awaiting me there, as they are needed at the earliest possible date.