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Carter No.: 496a

Handlist description: One wooden shawabti figure

Card/Transcription No.: 496a-1


496, A.

1. wooden shawabti-figure, 51 cents. high, wearing a finely carved ebony <> head-dress (no uraeus), gilt temple-band, face and hands painted flesh-colour with features delineated in black. The rest of the figure gesso-gilt; round neck the bead collarette and then down the front the VIth Ch. of the Book of the Dead graven upon the gold.

No emblems in hands (although the holes are there to receive them).

Card no. 496a-1 relating to Carter no. 496a
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