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Carter No.: 256c

Handlist description: Y-shaped amulet of gold

Card/Transcription No.: 256c 


256. C. Y-shaped Amulet of Gold


POSITION:
Abdomen; left flank.
Group I. (i.e. c and d).


DIMENSIONS:


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Nat. size
2
10 cmts.
5.5


DESCRIPTION:
Y-shaped amulet, cut out of burnished sheet gold.


REMARKS:
Under the first covering wrappings
cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, Pl. XLIX, 304, coffin 28083 (103).
inscribed: <> cabt.; Pierret, Hiero. Dict. , p. 68; <> baton
(Br.).
Card no. 256c relating to Carter no. 256c
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