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Carter No.: 123

Handlist description: Parts of portable pavilion. (see also 95b)

Card/Transcription No.: 123-11


123. PARTS OF A PORTABLE PAVILION

POSITION: - SCATTERED ABOUT THE ANTECHAMBER AND ANNEXE DISCOVERED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: - 620-(118), 511, 465, 438.

FOR DETAILS SEE NOTES ATTACHED

The four slender columns (Nos. 438, 465), the framework of a canopy (No. 123), and the two cross-bars (No. 123), obviously belong to a travelling or portable pavilion, but a large portion of the construction seems to be missing:- namely, the base, the chair or stool, the roof, and the metal work. A quantity of slats, some of them hinged, from their workmanship, seem to belong to this pavilion, but exactly what they formed is not clear. They may possibly belong to some kind of awning ??? The footstool (No. 511) also seems to belong to it. Note The missing parts were probably of metal, or bore a quantity of metal, for there seems no other reason for the plunderers to have stolen them.

Card no. 123-11 relating to Carter no. 123
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