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Carter No.: 256hh(3)

Handlist description: Amuletic bracelet with inscribed barrel-shaped red chalcedony (poor quality carnelian) bead

Card/Transcription No.: 256hh-1 


256, HH. Three Amuletic Bracelets 1


POSITION:
Thorax:
(1) below right pectoral muscle
(2) Right lower ribs
(3) Left lower part of sternum.
Form group VI.
(1) A barrel-shaped lapis lazuli bead, mounted upon gold
bracelet, thus:


<>
gold
lapis lazuli
gold
4.5
HH.(1).
diam 7.4
gold


<> = 'divine eye'.
(2) An wd3t-eye of iron, mounted upon gold bracelet thus:


<>
iron
3.5
gold
diam. 7.6
Card no. 256hh-1 relating to Carter no. 256hh(3)
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