TAA i.1.256.t

Caption
Object card of gold hawk collar
Creator
Howard Carter
Room
Burial chamber
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
256.t
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. T. Gold 'Collar of Horus'

 

POSITION:

Neck: over right clav clavicle; tail towards right deltoidesic; wings enveloping neck

Neck:

Covering neck <and back of face>, with tail towards the right hand side. Formed the first group upon 

within wrappings of the neck.

 

DIMENSIONS:

Max. diam. 30 cents. H of bird from head to tip of tail 17 cents.

 

DESCRIPTION:

[ 𓂀 ] wsḫ-(collar)-of-Horus, cut out of sheet gold with detail 

of feathers, ETC., chased. The head of hawk turned to left. In the

claws are the shen-symbols

Attached to the tip of the wings (second primary feather) gold wire to which is 

attached a [ 𓂀 ] Mʿa Nḫt (Mankhet) a tag or counterbalance at the 

back of the neck.

 

[ 𓂀 ]

wire

30 cents.

17. cents

 

REMARKS:

cf Mace and Winlock, Senebtisi, p. 64 ff.     

cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, pl. LI. 436.