TAA i.3.28.2

          Placed between the first (innermost) shrine and the second

shrine were two flabella and two groups of bows and arrows.

Their distribution and description being as follows:-

          On the west end, at the head of the king, and lying with its 

handle towards the north, was a large golden ostrich-feather 

flabellum (plates ... ... ... x, No.242.).

          This ceremonial fan is of the screen kind, i.e. consisting of a 

handle to which is attached a rigid mount. It is encased 

with ‘fine’ sheet gold upon a wooden core. The semi-circular 

rigid mount, 18.5 cents., by 10.5 cents., has its outer edge pierced 

to receive 30 ostrich-feathers which were white and brown <(1)>

alternate. The ostrich feathers were unfortunately reduced 

to almost a mass of débris, they having been attacked <by insects>

in ancient times/<soon after the tomb was closed> by insects; however, when they were 

first examined in situ, the order of their colour and their 

length, about 25 cents., was just discernible (see fig. ...). They 

also appeared to be natural and not made up plumes.

          The plain round tapering handle, 95 cents. in length, 

diminishing <gradually> in thickness towards its upper end <like the peduncle (or flowering stem) of papyrus>, is surmounted 

by a conventionalized papyrus-umbel: the staxxx[?] or peduncle[?]/<the rays of the umbel,> represented en masse, terminate in in rich downward curves, and 

of the inflorescence being represented by a rich downward curve

and the bracts <are> incised upon the axial base of the peduncle/<of the <gold> umbel are the bracts.> The 

butt end of the handle terminates in another conventionalized 

papyrus-umbel, but of much simpler form with the peduncle[?]/<bracts and rays>

and bracts simply incised upon the gold.