TAA i.3.6.3
Handwritten notes on the painted casket, page 3.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
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almost gone showing the wood beneath.
A trace of decoration in red outline is
visible. Here the King wears a round
wig with a yellow ribbon with blue spots
It is not easy to say whether the wig was
dx[?]/<ar>k blue or black. The surmounting atef
crown xxx[?]/<has> similar colours to that on the
other side. Decoration on back of
sphinx is bands of blue green or
yellow instead of spots of these
colours as on the other side.
Negroes similar to other side
Syrians blue & green bands
& spots on yellow.
There are almost invisible details on
the claws of the sphinx in yellow paint.