TAA i.3.28.7.recto

upon nbyt-collar signs. These cartouches are flanked by vultures 

wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. The vultures stand 

upon similar nbyt-symbols, and in front of the vultures, between 

their open wings, are šnw-cartouches and wȝš-sceptres. 

The sun-discs are surmounted by the heavenly canopy

pt the ‘sky’, and the whole device is framed with the 

customary [ 𓂀 ] – border. The mount measures 20.4 cents., 

by 12 cents., and its outer edge is pierced to receive 41 ostrich-

feathers. The feathers as in the preceding case were reduced

to powder by insects; they were apparently all white plumes,

and judging from some of their remaining quills and shafts <(1)>

they were at least 30 cents. in length. The flabellum when 

perfect must therefore have been over a metre and a half in 

length, from the butt end of the handle to the tips of its plumes.

          On the same side, the south or right-hand of the king, were 

also two long-bows and a group of ten arrows. While the flabella 

described above could easily have been used during active ceremonial 

observances, such as religious or conventional forms of deference 

or respect, the bows and arrows found here, and also on the 

north side, were undoubtedly for sepulchral use only.

          A long-bow placed on the ground towards the western end of the 

south side (plates ... .^x. ... No. 244).

          This dummy bow, 191 cents. in length, represents a ‘self’ bow, 

i.e. made entirely of self wood <(2)>. It is made of two staves joined