Card/Transcription No.: 331a-6

For Mr. Howard Carter.
Extract from a letter from Mr. Cerný of 7.9.30.

"That Maia was in the king's service and in some way connected
with the construction (or rather carving) of the king' tomb,
seems to me very probable, if not certain. The expression <> is
unknown to me from elsewhere (there is only <> - fem.! - for the
tomb in general), but <> is well attested for the royal tomb 
(Spiegelberg, Graffiti, Indices, No. 547). But it is very
doubtful to me that he was just an "architect", for the title mr
k3t is borne e.g. both by the Vizier and the Royal Scribe, who
had, both of them, merely the supervision of the work, but were
not "architects" in our sense of the word. I do not know who made
the plans of the Royal tombs and who was concerned with the
technical side of the work. The title <> suggests that Maia was
also only a "scribe".