TAA i.2.12a.4.02.recto

Outermost Coffin  No 253

Lid                         (Coloured cement under inlay)

Cleaned with warm water and NH₄ OH. 

Repaired with celluloid cement. 

Filled hollows in gesso with hot p melted paraffin 

wax by means of a pipette

Painted with paraffin wax

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Second Coffin  No 254

Lid                    (Coloured cement under inlay)

Cleaned with warm water. (Face & hands with NH₄ OA) 

Repaired in places with celluloid cement and in 

places with paraffin wax. Painted with hot wax.

Thickness of some of the gold   (a) 0.04 mm to 0.07mm.

                                                      (b) 0.03 mm to 0.07mm 

(G.R 17/26)                                   (c) 0.05 mm to 0.07 mm.

The lid was inlaid with coloured glass, two shades of 

blue – dark & light – and red. The light blue and the 

red glass were both in excellent condition but the 

dark blue was badly deteriorated & in may^sic instances 

had crumbled & swollen to a whitish powder. On 

analysis this powx[?]/<d>er gave no re-action for Cl or SO₃for the

mask[?] but was alkaline & contained a carbonate 

(soluble) and an insoluble residue.

(G.R. 18/26) 

Several pieces of semi-transparent material with coloured design beneath

Tomb[?] was of transparent material probably glass with xxx[?]

xxx[?] for the xxx[?]