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Carter No.: 256f

Handlist description: Gold collar with vulture and cobra

Card/Transcription No.: 256f 


256, F. Gold collar of Buto and Nekhbet


POSITION:
Thorax: Upper left side, high up over pectoral muscle.
Second collar of group I (i.e., E.,F, G, H).


DIMENSIONS:
<> 11.5 29.5 10


DESCRIPTION:
A Collar of Buto and Nekhbet, cut out of sheet gold, with
details finely chased. Talons of Nekhbet hold shen-symbols.
Attached to tips of wings by means of gold (beaten) wire a
Macnht


REMARKS:
cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, pl. LI, 435, coffin 28037 (71). <> wsh
(collar) of Nbti
cf. Winlock and Mace, Tomb of Senebtisi, p. 64 ff.
Card no. 256f relating to Carter no. 256f
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