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Carter No.: 605a

Handlist description: Yellow limestone shawabti figure

Card/Transcription No.: 605a


605, A

1. yellow limestone shawabti-figure; height 20.7 cents.; wearing the 'White Crown' of Upper Egypt (painted white), with uraeus coloured yellow (details blue and red), and the temple band (painted yellow); features delineated with black, eyeballs white; the remainder of the figure quite plain.

Graven, and filled in with greenish blue pigment, down the front of the figure the following inscription:

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(Nothing in hands)

Note The crown is made of a separate piece of stone pegged on.

Card no. 605a relating to Carter no. 605a
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