TAA i.1.256.j.2

Caption
Drawing with object card(s) of apron (gold, inlaid)
Creator
Howard Carter
Room
Burial chamber
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
256.j
Material
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
25.2 cm x 20.4 cm (h x w)
Season
4th Season (1925–1926)
Notes

Paper folded in half.

TAA i.1.256.j.3 is on verso.

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© Griffith Institute,

University of Oxford

Transcription

256, J.

 

Front: Gold cloissonnessic inlaid.

 

Nat. SIZE

 

[ 𓂀 ]

Top Section

eyelets for bead borders 

of the following beads: -

[ 𓂀 ] dark blue faience

[ 𓂀 ] gold

by which the sections 

were held together.

 

6.3 

gold wire

carneleansic

gold

lapis blue glass

carneleansic

turquoise blue glass

gold

     

workmanship rough

 

gold

turquoise blue glass

gold

lapis blue glass

gold

turquoise blue glass

gold

 

at back eyelets for single string of beads down centre

 

Note the carneleansic is a translucent quartzesic

with red pigment underneath

 

[ 𓂀 ]

5 Central Sections 

of same designs as

Sixth Section

 

lapis lazuli/<blue> glass

carneleansic

turquoise blue glass

carneleansic.

 

lapis blue glass

gold

turquoise blue glass

gold

lapis blue glass

gold

turquoise blue glass

gold

lapis blue glass

 

[ 𓂀 ]

Section: - 

 

[ 𓂀 ]

Seventh and bottom 

Section:

 

lapis blue glass

gold

green glass rod.

9.1 cents.

 

turquoise blue glass

filled turquiose blue glass

jasper red glass

lapis blue glass

carneleansic

 

Max. L. 35.5 cents

Min. W. 6.3 "

Max. W. 9.1 "