Card/Transcription No.: 264-2

264 A COW'S HEAD UPON PEDESTAL

MATERIALS.
Wood covered with gesso-gilt except lower part of neck which is covered with gesso varnished
black.
HORNS: wooden core covered with thin sheet of copper or bronze and then varnished black.
EYE-BALL: crystalline limestone.
PUPIL OF EYE: probably obsidian.
ROUND EYE AND ALSO EYEBROW: black glass.
On oblong wooden stand varnished black.
No inscription.
TREATMENT. Cleaned with warm water: waxed.

A. L.