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Carter No.: 256gg

Handlist description: Gold hawk collar

Card/Transcription No.: 256gg 


256, GG. Gold Collar of the Hawk


POSITION:
Thorax: centre; covering right and left pectoral muscles, and
extending down to beginning of abdomen. 
Form: Vth group.


DIMENSIONS:


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8 21 29
8 29 32 41


DESCRIPTION:
Collar of the Hawk. Cut out of sheet gold, with details finely
chased. Attached to the top of the hawk-heads by means of gold
(beaten) wire a macnht or tag.


REMARKS:
cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, pl. LI.
cf. Mace and Winlock, Senebtisi, p. 64ff.
Card no. 256gg relating to Carter no. 256gg
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