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Carter No.: 605c

Handlist description: Three quartzite shawabti figures

Card/Transcription No.: 605c


605, C.

3. Quartzite shawabti-figures; from 23.5 to 22 cents. high; wearing the NMS-head-dress, painted yellow with dark blue striations, uraeus and temple-band yellow, features delineated black, eye-ball white tinged red in corners. The winding sheet fitting closed round neck.

Graven on front of figure, filled in with blue pigment, the following inscription:

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(Nothing in hands)

Card no. 605c relating to Carter no. 605c
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