Card/Transcription No.: 585s

585 Contents (S)

S. A gold ornament resembling decoration from harness or the
like. This was found twisted & bent up, and was probably dropped
by the tomb-plunderers.

It is of open-work, has traces of the scarlet tinting, and
represents the King seated upon a chair (see throne) within a
kind of shrine with the Queen standing before him offering him
papyrus umbels; beneath the feet of the King & the Queen are two
(Asiatic and African) prisoners. On either side the King as a
human-headed sphinx offers the figure of truth <> upon a festival
<> sign.

The shrine is surmounted by the winged solar-disc.

Max. L. 9.2; Max. W. 6.4 cents.