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Carter No.: 605g

Handlist description: Four quartzite (crystalline sandstone) shawabti figures

Card/Transcription No.: 605g


605, G.

4. Quartzite (crystalline sandstone) shawabti-figures; between 25 to 26 cents. in height; wearing the <> head-dress, uraeus and beard; the stone has slightly tinged with pink, the head-dress, the uraeus, the temple-band, the emblems in hands, and the inscription detailed in yellow; the features and beard black; the eye-ball white; the lips red. Holds in left hand the crozier, and in the right hand the flail, thus:

<> ends of head-dress

Graven down the front of the figures the following inscription filled in with yellow:

In one case <> sic

In three cases <>

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