TAA i.1.256.n

Caption

Object card of gold wristlet

Creator

Howard Carter

Room

Burial chamber

Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)

256.n

Material

Card

Ink

Pencil

Measurements

12.5 cm x 20.7 cm (h x w)

Season

4th Season (1925–1926)

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University of Oxford

Transcription

256. N. Gold wrislet^sic {wristlet}

POSITION:

Thighs; left hip.

Group: I

DIMENSIONS:

W. 6.1 cents. Max. diam. 5.5 Min diam. 4.8 (wider measurement).

DESCRIPTION:

A gold wrislet^sic of barrel-shape type, inlaid with turquoise, lapis lazuli

glass and carnelean^sic (quartze^sic with red pigment underneath). Bears on one

half section, the following legend: [ 𓂀 ].

[ 𓂀 ]

pin hinge

[ 𓂀 ]

turquoise

lapis

carnelean^sic

lapis

turquoise

Repeated

[ 𓂀 ]

carnelean^sic

lapis

turquoise

lapis

Repeated.

REMARKS:

As per legend this ornament is purely sepulchral. <(See Davies Gardiner, Amenemhet,

pl. I/<X>II, XI. p. 50.)

Only one was found upon the mummy, though from the monuments one would have

expected there would be at leat^sic {least} 4 (i.e. pair of wristlets and a pair of anklets.).