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Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
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Carter No.: 204

Handlist description: Plated staff with glass inlay

Card/Transcription No.: 204-3


204 Cont.

gold blue gold, blue and green being glass. Below feather pattern: inlay of blue & green glass & calcite with red backing. The rings are of lapis lazuli blue, the blue of the feathers was quite a different shade of blue green.

H. Silver ferrule.

G & H were a separate piece put on together. Just above H a hole pierced through stick. This for a peg to fasten on G & H to stick ?

4. Treatment Washed. Cleaned with ammonia and waxed.

Card no. 204-3 relating to Carter no. 204
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