Handlist description: Lid of casket 551
Card/Transcription No.: 551-2
Nos. 551, 540. CASKETSCALE 0 5 10 15 20 25
Base wood, with ivory, ebony, faience, glass and calcite decoration.
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SIDE ELEVATION Knobs gesso-gilt
FRONT wood painted green ebony alternate ebony and ivory ivory ebony ivory ebony, ivory, ebony and ivory calcite blue light-blue glass red paint calcite dark blue glaze ivory 48.5 7
Carved ivory 72 blue faience calcite blue faience ivory 1 2 3 4 5 carved ivory panel 64 blue faience ebony
ebony gesso-gilt copper cap
Subjects. 1. Bull-calf lying down, 2 lion attacking an ibex, 3 galloping bull, 4 two bull-calves, one galloping the other lying down, 5. bull-calf scampering.
OPPOSITE SIDE Scene 5 Hound attacking ibex.
Scene 4 Cheetah throttling galloping bul, having sprung on to its back.
Scene 3 Scampering bull-calf.
Scene 2 Ibex running.
Scene 1 hound attacking bull-calf.
FRONT
