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Handlist description: Lid of wooden box with stone and glaze inlay

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Lid of wooden box with stone and glaze inlay.

L. 10 W.7. Inlay of glaze or glass, red, blue, green, white, and semi translucent with paint underneath. Flesh red, hair blue, kilt & background white, belt blue. Seat & collar of reddish glass with paint underneath. Border of bands of colours. Female figure & name Nefer-neferu-re: according to Petrie 5th daughter of Ikhnaton (L.D.iii 99). Thickness of wood .4 At one end round knob of wood 1.5 in diam. Two battens underneath 6 wide by 8 deep.

Rest of box ?

Treatment. Stuck on loose inlay with celluloid cement & sprayed with solution of celluloid in amyl acetate

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