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Carter No.: 053

Handlist description: Glazed collar and pads with rings

Card/Transcription No.: 053


53. Glaze Collar and Pad with Rings.

1. Position Resting on lid of Box 54, as deposited by plunderers or priests. Above, fragments of badly decayed cloth.

(a) Collar of coloured glaze beads and amulets. See special sheet.

Treatment Washed out with salt water. Mended broken pendants, some with celluloid cement & some with Canada balsam.

(b)

<> 35.5 cm

Circular pad of cloth, or cloth on wood, about 1.5 thick, on which were threaded 13 glaze rings, and two of silver(?). Several had cartouches. Those of the king were all <> form. One of Queen Ankhesnamen.

cp. 46 (oo) 147 (b)

Also on the lid there was a small square of carnelian inlay.

Card no. 053 relating to Carter no. 053
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