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Carter No.: 319a

Handlist description: Painted wooden shawabti figure

Card/Transcription No.: 319ao 


319 A to O Shawabtis


Wood painted
Treatment
Brushed with soft brush
Cleaned with benzine
Treated with solution of celluloid in amyl acetate


Pigment
Loose fragments of blue pigment from several of the figures
were tested and were all artificial frit
Card no. 319ao relating to Carter no. 319a
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