TAA i.2.12a.4.15
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University of Oxford
Uraeus 4Q
Gold with Lapis & glass & stone (translucent) with
red cement now decayed. The stone is fibrous calcite.
Body & tail in sections: all plastered with beeswax to
stick it in place on wrappings.
Cleaned with acetone (& CHCl3) & ammonia
Vulture 4R
Gold: plastered with beeswax as above.
Cleaned as above.
MMM also NNN also Z
Large inlaid bird in sections.
Dark blue glass now quite decayed - no colour &
much expansion.
Cleaned with ammonia & warm water (after acetone
to dissolve fatty matter)
In a number of cases <in MMM> red glass inlay was covered
with a green deposit & looked exactly like green
inlay.
In Z the blue glass in part was in better condition.
Amulets
4L
4K
4J
4I } Gold: cleaned with ammonia & warm water
4I bis
4H
4G
4F
Also L[?] (with x[?]/<t>iny crystals of fatty acid) F. G. H. P. C. W. TT and M all
gold & many with white deposit probably of fatty matter: cleaned with
ammonia, heating, nitric acid & warm water.
Also LLL.