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Carter No.: 320a

Handlist description: Second coffin

Card/Transcription No.: 320a-1


320, A. (Contents 320)

A second coffin - Fits the interior of outer coffin within a centimetre; wood; gesso-gilt; feathered decoration; nemes-headdress; usekh-collar; hands free (no emblems though there are holes for same in hands); Nekhebet and Buto vultures over abdomen; longitudinal text down centre; a figure of Isis and text under feet (see copies attached). Only the lid could be removed, owing to the coffin being stuck to the interior of the outer-coffin which had been coated with black resin.

Card no. 320a-1 relating to Carter no. 320a
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