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Carter No.: 254

Handlist description: Second coffin

Card/Transcription No.: 254-2


254 2

Emblems: Flail: blue faience, lapis and turquoise blue glass and gold. Crook: blue faience and gold.

Collar (of 'the Hawk'): jasper red, lapis blue, turquoise blue glass.

Hands: Gold with bracelets inlaid on wrists

Nekhbet and Buto over Thorax (just below forearms) elaborately inlaid with jasper red, lapis blue and turquoise blue glass. The shen-symbols in talons of jasper red (centre) and turquoise blue glass. Body: The whole of the body decorated with 'Rîshi' (feathered) pattern in jasper red, lapis blue and turquoise blue glass.

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Card no. 254-2 relating to Carter no. 254
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