TAA i.12.19

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TAA i.12
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Carter's Lecture Notes for "Stockholm Lecture II. (Royal Burial and Innermost Treasury)", p.7
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Howard Carter
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256
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                             THE THIRD INNERMOST COFFIN OF SOLID GOLD.


117|730.  THE THIRD COFFIN WITHIN THE SECOND COFFIN.

                 Note:- It was covered from neck to foot by a close fitting reddish

                 coloured shroud. Its burnished gold face left bare, and round its

                 neck a funerary collarette of flowers and blue faience beads sewn

                 upon a papyrus paper backing.

 

118|737. THE THIRD (INNERMOST) COFFIN WROUGHT IN SOLID GOLD.

                 Note:- It is nearly two metres in length, wrought with solid gold,

                 depicts the king as Osiris, engraved with feather pattern and the

                 goddesses Isis and Nephthys, and is embellishsic with auxiliary cloisonne

                 work representing the two protecting goddesses, Nekhebet and Buto,
                 of the Two Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt.

 

                                                           THE KING’S MUMMY.

 

119|743.  THE KING’S MUMMY WHEN FIRST REVEALED IN ITS COFFIN.
                 Note:- This neat and carefully made mummy is fahionedsic to symbolize

                 Osiris. Over the head is a beaten gold mask; round its neck a

                 necklace of yellow and scarlet gold and blue faience beads; and

                 pendant from the neck of a large black scarab bearing the b/<B>ennu ritual.

                 It is completely enveloped with linen wrappings, and below, sewn 

                 to the outer covering of lix[?]/<n>en, are x[?]/<b>urnished gold hands that grasp

                 the flagellum and crozier (decayed) and inlaid gold trappings.

 

120|757.   THE GOLD MASK.

                  Note:- Ansic unique specimen of ancient portraiture in beaten gold.

                  It bears a si/<a>d but calm expression suggestive of youth overtaken

                  prematurely by death. The features have a distinct gleam of

                  affinity to both of his predecessors – Akh.en.Aten and Queen Tyi.