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Carter No.: 119

Handlist description: Reed tray with partitions

Card/Transcription No.: 119-2


119. (Cont.)

4. Contents Not original, but thrown or fallen in anyhow.

(a) Pieces of leather and gold decoration from a chariot. (Placed provisionally with Chariot 120). (b) Quartzite or hard limestone disc, 4.7 in diam., .8 thick, with hole in centre for a peg. (Placed provisionally with chariot 120). (c) Remains of a bag, or piece of cloth folded up to form a bag, of very coarse linen. Neck tied round with linen thread .1 in diam., and fastened with a clay sealing attached to the neck also, presumably for carrying purposes, a considerable length of coarse linen cord, circ. .3 in diam. <> (d) Two dom fruits. (e) In two partitions remains of a grainy substance, ? bread. (f) In two partitions a few seeds of hbk(?). These last three part of original contents?

Card no. 119-2 relating to Carter no. 119
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