Card/Transcription No.: 239-03

The First (innermost) Shrine. No. 239.

A gilded wood shrine closely fitted over and completely
enclosing the sarcophagus.

Oblong in shape, it has a roof of barrel-vault form abutting
upright end pieces, a cavetto cornice, a torus moulding,
frieze, panels, and dado, corner posts forming the styles, and
in place of a skirting the lower edges are bound with sheet
copper painted(?) a dark greenish-blue (see Alex. Scott II, p.
205 ff).

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Dimensions at base - 290.5 x 161.5 cents.
Extreme edges of cornice - 309 x 181 cents.
Total height - 192 cents; height from ground to spring of
cornice - 152 cents. 
Opening of doorway - 131 cents high; 121.5 cents wide. Door
leaf, 130 x 60 cents. 
The four sides show a batter (i.e. have a receding

(1) Dimensions are all Mean Measurement, i.e. the average two
dimensions