Card/Transcription No.: 545

545 SHIELD (covered with hide).
(the pair to this is 566)

POSITION:    
Cast behind miscellanea N.E. corner of chamber (see photos
1146 and 1148).

DIMENSIONS:

DESCRIPTION:
Shield, made of wood of light nature, covered with gesso,
overlaid with a thin hide on which stiff yellowish hair still
adheres in many places. 
Border of gesso, tinted yellow, with <> ornament delineated in
red.
Central panel of plain gesso, tinted yellow, embossed and
outlined in red the prenomen and nomen of the King.
A pair of holes at top and on both sides of border, also a
similar pair of holes in centre of back which do not pierce
the gesso of central panel.
The shield in section is curved. <>

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50.5
74.0
45.5