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Carter No.: 054d

Handlist description: Throw-stick of wood, thickly coated with plaster, and overlaid with gold, similar to 54e

Card/Transcription No.: 054d


54. Contents (cont.)

(d)

<> a b c 5.5 d 40.5

Throw stick of wood, thickly coated with plaster, and overlaid with gold.

End a a solid piece of dark blue faience 7.5 cm. long, with decoration (see phot.) in light blue or green. End d also faience of dark blue 3 cm long. On end, in light blue <> Gold part divided into bands, by double incised lines. Band b. each side incised sacred eye. " c. One side Tutankhamen cartouche, other side Kheperu-neb-re. Other bands plain. Oval in section 1.5 cm. thick. Below upper glaze band there must have been a separate slip of applied gold .8 wide.

Washed faience ends with water. Sprayed after mending with solution of celluloid in amyl acetate & mended with celluloid cement.

Card no. 054d relating to Carter no. 054d
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