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Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
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Carter No.: 035

Handlist description: Lion couch

Card/Transcription No.: 035-4


35 (cont.)

Base

1:20

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Wood covered with gesso & coated with black resin.

Very irregularly made. Holes in many cases made smaller by insertion of thin slips of wood. One had two slips at bottom of hole and one at side

At aaaa wood thickened by 1 cm.

Treatment. Cleaned with water: sprayed with acetone.

Card no. 035-4 relating to Carter no. 035
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