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Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
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Carter No.: 578

Handlist description: Boat and pedestal (calcite)

Card/Transcription No.: 578-2


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upon which is a sloping roof curved in front. On the four sides, screen walls, cornice capped, rise nearly halfway up the columns, and which are decorated with floral ornamentation and dado. The screen walls show no doorway, and thus no means of ingress to the pavilion.

On the forepart of the main deck, and facing forward, squats a figure of a nude girl, in calcite, wig of dark grey-green hard stone, gold ear-rings, gilt and painted armlets, and a bead bracelet on each wrist; in her left hand she holds a lotus flower (of stained ivory), the object in her right hand is missing.

On the high aft-part of the main deck a standing and turning sideways figure of a deformed nude girl dwarf, of calcite, holding in both hands a punting-pole (stained ivory); wig (with large side lock) of dark grey-green hard stone, gilt and painted armlets, and a bead bracelet on each wrist.

Card no. 578-2 relating to Carter no. 578
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