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Carter No.: 540

Handlist description: Lid of casket 551

Card/Transcription No.: 540-2a


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filled in with conventional garlands, bouquets, and plants, among which the mandragora is prominently figured. The scenes upon the side and back panels represent scampering animals - bulls, bull-calves, and ibexes - which, in some instances, are being attacked by a lion, a cheetah, a leopard, and hounds. The background to these animal motifs is filled in with similar conventional flora like the fowling scene upon the front panel, described above. But the chief glory of this casket is the ivory panel upon the lid, carved in delicate low relief like a Green coin. Here, the royal couple are represented in a pavilion bedecked with festoons of flowers, and the vine. The king, leaning slightly on his walking-staff, accepts bouquets from his charming consort who is attired

Card no. 540-2a relating to Carter no. 540
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