Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication
- TAA i.3.22
- Bestanddeel
- 1922-1939
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
- i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
- ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
- iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
- v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
- Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
- Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.
Breasted, James Henry