TAA i.2.12a.4.08.recto

Flail No 255.

The handle of the flail was badly disintegrated, the 

covering material being broken off and the bronze (or 

copper) core being bare.

(GR/ The broken material was found to be glass which

5/26) had on the surface had lost its original dark-blue 

          colour and had become grey, though the interior was 

          still dark blue.

The breaking of the x[?] glass had possibly been due to 

the corrx[?]/<os>ion and expansion of the metal core: the 

broken pieces were with few exceptions in large 

pieces and were fairly solid, though there was 

some disintegration. 

On some of the pieces of glass there were solidified 

globules of brown resinous-looking material, 

almost certainly resin.

Cleaned flail with NH₄OH & warm water. 

Some of the threaded, truncated cone shaped stones were 

carnelian some were of turquoise-blue <glass> in good condition 

&some were almost in powder & had probably been 

dark blue glass. Repaired one with celluloid cement.