TAA i.2.12.12
On this page Lucas also mentions a pottery jar with Carter object number 620 but this cannot be clearly identified, and an alabaster lamp which is either Carter object number 173 or 174 but also cannot be clearly identified.
The following page is numbered 14, there is no page 13.
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Contents of Jars (Continued) (12)
No 210. Hard orange-coloured mass: this had expanded and split vase
(3/25) Contains a little fat or fatty acid: organic: Partly soluble in
alcohol and acetone and partly in water. In appearance like
beeswax but solubilities suggest gum-resin. Voluminous
light grey ash. Petroleum spirit and alcohol dissolve a little
white fatty matter. Acetone softens material slightly. Water
extract slight brown colour. Repeated Fatty Matter 1.50
Seems to contain large amount wax.
46/23. From box 32 but originally probably from alabaster jar.
Light brown colour: very light weight: full of air holes: Ash 0.5%
Melts to liquid: burns with smoky flame: acid: no Cl Ether 89.0% soluble
Water after Ether 8.0% soluble.
Dr. R. Thomas Iodine value 3.3: Sup. value 200 (not corrected for free fatty acids)
Free Fatty acid as Meic or Stearic, 58.0%. Musap. 0.75%. Sol. in acetone 90.0%
Insol. residue of nature of pitch. Sap. value of the acids 198.
Molecular Weight 2841 (M P (crude) 55 C, recrystallised 66C) MP stearic 67.8 C
Almost entirely stearic acid & stearic (no palmatic or practically none)
Castor oil or derivative.
2/28 (620) Deposit from interior of pottery jar (long neck: not normal-shaped wine jar)
Good positive tests for CaO, K, CO2 and Tartrate. Wine Residue.
(J H Robbins says ash = 54.7%. Contains Ca & CO2)
61/23 Alabaster Lamp. Light brown fine granular powder largely soluble in HCl
with efflorescence (sol. brown): chiefly calcareous: SO3 small: ScO2 small: clay
small.