TAA i.3.28.8.recto

by a scarf-joint which forms the centre of the bow – the handle 

or grip. The staves are round, have a max. diam. of 27 mills., 

and taper <off> gradually towards the curved ‘horns’ on which 

a string was fitted. The handle or grip, and the two horns 

are encased in thin sheet-gold. These mountings are decorated

with gold collar-like borders incised with rope and spiral 

ornament. The bare wood in places was badly eaten by insects, 

and/<but> parts of the linen in which the bow had been wrapped 

still remained.

          A fellow long-bow lying on the was placed on the ground 

towards the eastern end of the south side (plates ... ^x ... No. 246). 

          This dummy bow, 176.5 cents. in length, is of similar type and 

make as the preceding specimen, but without the gold 

mountings. It had also been wrapped in linen.

          A group of ten arrows, lying on the ground at the western end 

of the south side (plates ... .^x. ... No. 243).

          These dummy arrows, 91 cents. long, having a diam. of 8 mills., 

are made of a red wood resembling cedar, and they represent 

‘self’ arrows of the ‘parallel’ pattern <(1)>. Their ‘piles’ and ‘nocks’ 

are painted black, probably to represent ebony so often employed 

in real Egyptian arrows of this period, and their shafts are

painted at intervals with black and yellow bands to represent 

binding. They had no feathers.