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Carter No.: 331a

Handlist description: Osiride recumbent figure of the King, lying on a funeral bier

Card/Transcription No.: 331-3


331 (continued) 3

REMARKS: The temple band, usekh-collar, wrists (bracelets), were covered with thin gold foil. The details of the nemes-headdress, the eyes and eyebrows; the headdress of the Ba-bird, & details of the falcon, painted in with black paint.

Faults in the wood made good with stopping (which show much lighter in tint).

Dusted with soft brush Cleaned with benzine Given one coat of a 1% solution of cellulose acetate in acetone which appreciably darkened the wood & made the grain more marked

Card no. 331-3 relating to Carter no. 331a
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