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Carter No.: 496d

Handlist description: Three pale blue glazed pottery shawabti figures

Card/Transcription No.: 496d-1


496, D.

3. Pale blue glazed pottery shawabti-figures, 17.5 cents. high, wearing the <> head-dress, temple-band and beard. (No uraeus). Holding nothing in their hands.

Inscribed in manganese the VIth Chap. of the Book of the Dead in eight horizontal lines, across the body and the legs.

Card no. 496d-1 relating to Carter no. 496d
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