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Carter No.: 459a

Handlist description: Three calcite shawabti figures

Card/Transcription No.: 459a


459, A.

3. Calcite shawabti-figures, from 20 to 25 cents. high, wearing the khat-headdress (one with beard), the temple-band and uraeus of wood painted yellow; the eyes and eyebrows painted black, the eye-balls white; other delineations in red.

Hold in their hands the ankh, thus: <> L. R.

Graven and filled in with blue, the following inscription: <> sic <>

Note Same as 380, C.

Card no. 459a relating to Carter no. 459a
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