Card/Transcription No.: 387

387. WRITING HORN (OR ? STIFFENER FOR PACKING GARMENTS)
(See 398)            1

POSITION:
Lying on a mass of miscellanea, beneath a large stone (from
blocking of doorway) below doorway of chamber (see photo. 1137).

DIMENSIONS:
L. 39.0; W. 26.2; cents. Thickness 0.7 cents.

DESCRIPTION:
A thin board of hard wood; covered on both sides with stucco on
linen; completely overlaid with plain thin sheet-gold; small hole
for (?) suspension at one end; a horizontal inscription incised
upon the gold near edge of one side reading: -
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Gold much buckled.
Corners slightly rounded, edges bevelled.

(Note German Emperor's newspaper printed in gold)

REMARKS:
Condition bad. Specimens of boards of this kind have been found 
placed between clothes see painted casket no. ...