TAA i.3.6.11
Handwritten notes on the ivory casket, page 4.
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
4.
3. The long panel opposite to that copied
This measures 24” x 7¾”. It is similar
in colour to its fellow. There is no join
in the strips with the animals but the
plants at each end are in separate
sections. Colours the same as elsewhere.
The dogs are light yellow & the lion
a darker yellow.
The faience pieces on the borders
are set in fine plaster which shows
at the edges. The blue-green is like
glass in contrast to the dull quality
of the blues & reds. The [ 𓂀 ] shows <ivory[?]>
a hole from which the
filling has dropped out. In one or
two cases where it is preserved it
is a dull yellow (see copy) rather like
the efflorescence of the grass-like foliage.
These petals [ 𓂀 ] & the fx[?]/<ai>ence seem embedded
in a border of cement <(and the [ 𓂀 ] between also),>. All black border
lines are inlaid ebony. The centre is framed
by 4 strips of ivory 1½” wide with no join except
where they meet at the corners.