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Carter No.: 062

Handlist description: 48 boxes of food offerings

Card/Transcription No.: 062-12


The Egyptians were the most unconscionable muddlers that ever were. Proof:-
     
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<> = <> "head" scapula
<> = <> "heart" humerus
<> = <> "back" radius
* <> = <> "back" lumbar vertebrae
<> = <> ? offering cuts femur
<> <> ? tibia
<> <> ? ribs
<> = <> liver tongue
* <> <>goose

Thus only two are correct, four are certainly wrong, and the rest uncertain. What is one to do with material like that? Hearty congratulations in finishing your work on the tomb. It will be splendid if you are now able to get on to the publication. Do you remember I asked you whether you would look in the Tomb of Seti I for the picture of the cow ? The two signs missing in your drawing are these here in red

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Card no. 062-12 relating to Carter no. 062
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