2 Seals
The seal of clay or Nile mud, probably made plastic with oil,
affixed to the cord bears two impressions in relief obtained
from two separate incised seals: - one showing the prenomen of
the King surmounting a recumbent figure of Anubis over nine
Asiatic captives; the other, a counter-seal, showing only the
recumbent figure of the Anubis animal over nine alien
captives. The matrixes (intaglio) were evidently engraved upon
some hard material like stone or metal, and took either the
form of signet-rings or ordinary stamp-shaped seals.
The first device is evidently of the house of Tut-ankh-Amen,
while the second would seem, with little doubt, to be a
departmental seal of the Necropolis administration.
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