TAA i.3.28.6.verso
Caption
Note for scientific publication on the fourth (innermost) sepulchral shrine
Creator
Date of creation
c. 1923–1939
Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
27.9 x 21.5 cm (h x w)
Notes
Handwritten report on the objects found between the sarcophagus and the sepulchral shrines. Refers to Burton photograph P0598.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
Transcription
(1) “The central axis of a bird’s feather is divisible into two
distinct parts – a hollow, cylindrical, transparent
calamus, or “quill”, the base of which is inserted
into the skin, and a solid, quadrangular rhaetus
or “shaft” that supports/<supporting> the vane” – vexillum (W.P.P., Ency. Brit.,
XIVth Ed., vol. 9, p. 128).
x = plan, and neg. 598
(2) One kind of wood; here of a redishsic brown resembling cedar.