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Carter No.: 110

Handlist description: Wooden shawabti figure

Card/Transcription No.: 110-2


110 Cont.

3. (Cont) Ends of these fitted into wood with round pegs. Details incised. Wig details in relief. Face hands & neck covered with red paint. Eye-brows, frames and pupils black: corners white. Collar details incised, with drops at bottom in relief. Bracelet bars in relief with incised lines between. Flail in left hand: details carved. Crook gone from right hand.

Four lines of inscription down centre: incised and filled with yellow paint. Flaws in the wood filled with a stopping of whiting and glue painted to imitate the wood.

For inscriptions see note by A. H. Gardiner. Cleaned with damp brush & sprayed with a solution of celluloid in amyl acetate.

Card no. 110-2 relating to Carter no. 110
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