TAA i.3.28.6.recto

          On the south side, the right-hand of the king, was another 

large ostrich-feather flabellum, placed on the ground with its handle 

towards the west (plates ... ^x ..., No. 245).

          This ceremonial flabellum is also of the screen kind: having 

a rigid mount attached to a handle. The round tapering handle, 

112.7 cents. in length, diminishing in size towards its upper 

end, is made of solid ebony. The shaft is decorated at inter-

vals with broad sheet gold bands, which are bordered with collars 

of quatrefoil and garland-like ornament inlaid in 

Egyptian cloisonné <(1)> fashion with lapis lazuli and turquoise 

coloured glass, and calcite. The <expanding> butt end is encased with 

sheet gold and bordered with a collar of similarly inlaid 

garland pattern; while its upper extremity has a collar 

of similar quatrefoil ornament and is surmounted by 

the traditional papyrus umbel. Here, the gold encased convention-

alized peduncle/<rays> of the umbel are represented by a rich downward 

curve on either side, <and> the bracts are rendered in cloisonné work,

and are/<which is> inlaid with lapis lazuli coloured glass and calcite (1). 

and i/<I>ncised upon the obverse of the umbel is the following wish: 

[ 𓂀 ] “Life to the Beautiful Ruler”.

          The rigid semi-circular mount, made of an inferior reddish 

wood core <(2)> encased in sheet-gold, is elaborately encrusted with 

lapis lazuli, turquoise, and carnelean^sic coloured glass, and 

calcite. The device on both sides being: in the centre the prenomen 

and nomen of the king surmounted by sun-discs and resting