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Carter No.: 406

Handlist description: Red pottery crater

Card/Transcription No.: 406-1


406. RED POTTERY CRATER

POSITION: Lodged on top of miscellanea centre of chamber opposite doorway (see photos 1138, 1140)

DIMENSIONS: H. 44.0; diam. of mouth 22.3 (outside measurement), cents.

<> white plaster covering over inverted dish string binding white plaster seal in place.

DESCRIPTION: A red pottery crater; sides covered with white plaster from sealing of mouth; sealing of mouth an inverted pottery dish covered with plaster; four pairs of holes round rim for attaching covering lid or seal with string; some of the string, plaster and frags. of inverted dish in situ. Contents unknown - robbed. On side a hieratic docket <>; also docket in hieratic, smeared over with plaster, on opposite side of crater - (see photos).

REMARKS: The interior only shows black sooty deposit on the bottom - probably extraneous from being left open.

Card no. 406-1 relating to Carter no. 406
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