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Carter No.: 154

Handlist description: Large pottery dish

Card/Transcription No.: 154-1


154. Large Pottery Dish

1. Position. By wall, S. of entrance, behind chariot wheels 144 & 145.

2. Dimensions. Diam. 49.2. Height 12. Shape see next card.

3. Description Large pottery dish of coarse yellow-brown ware. Whole of outside & 5 down (measured slanting) inside covered with a dark red wash. Outside of rim nicked for ornamentation. 5 lines of rope marks. 5 pieces from rim broken off on one side.

4. Contents A quantity of dates. Little left but stones now, but originally they had been whole dates. Pieces of reed & papyrus matting. One collar square from corselet 54 (k). Placed with it.

Treatment. Cleaned with dry brush

Card no. 154-1 relating to Carter no. 154
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