256, T. Gold 'Collar of Horus'
POSITION:
Neck: over right clavicle; tail towards right deltoid; wings
enveloping neck.
Formed the first group within wrappings of the neck.
DIMENSIONS:
Max. diam. 30 cents. H. of bird from head to tip of tail 17
cents.
DESCRIPTION:
<> wsh-(collar)-of-Horus, cut out of sheet gold with detail of
feathers, ETC., chased. The head of hawk turned to left. In the
claws are the shen-symbols.
Attached to the tip of the wings (second primary feather) gold
wire to which is attached a <> Macnht (Mankhet) a tag or
counterbalance at the back of the neck.
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wire
30 cents.
17 cents.
REMARKS:
cf Mace and Winlock, Senebtisi, p. 64ff.
cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, pl. LI, 436.
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