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Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
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Carter No.: 098

Handlist description: Staff with handle of granulated gold work

Card/Transcription No.: 098-4


98 (cont.)

Upper register. Animal & plant scenes with rope border at top and plain line below. Middle register. Series of daisies <> between plain lines. Lower " Inscription <> Below an extra applied band as above.

G. Plain band of gold, with a narrow rope border at top, and a wide one at bottom.

These patterns, with inscription of rope borders are all contrived with tiny granules of gold, .71 in diam, 15 of which will lie in a straight line in a centimetre. Where granules are missing no mark is left on

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Card no. 098-4 relating to Carter no. 098
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