Card/Transcription No.: 168

168 Horse-hair fly-whisk cp. 148

1. Position
In S.E. corner of chamber (under chariot body 161)

2. Dimensions
Handle 10 long. Diam. at junction with whisk 4.8
Whisk about 33 long.

3. Description
Handle a cylinder of wood, carved to a lion's head and neck, and covered with a thin coating
of gesso and gold leaf. Perforated right through head, ending with a hole the width of the open
mouth.
Whiska bundle of reeds, covered or bound round with leather. To this attached small tufts of
black horse-hair circ. 6 long at top, and increasing in length towards bottom.

4. Treatment
Sprayed with celluloid in amyl-acetate.