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Carter No.: 605b

Handlist description: Yellow limestone shawabti figure

Card/Transcription No.: 605b


605, B

1. yellow limestone shawabti-figure; height 22.5 cents.; wears the hprs-headdress, painted black, with uraeus coloured yellow, ribbons at back of headdress coloured red, the temple-band yellow (orpiment), features delineated in black, eyeball white; the remainder of figure plain yellow limestone, with graven down the front & filled in with a greenish blue pigment the following inscription:

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Card no. 605b relating to Carter no. 605b
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