Image code: 26679

Casket with bracelets

silver bracelets inlaid with cornaline, lapis lazuli and turquoise; the inner and outer surfaces of the gold casket are bordered by a motif reminiscent of the matting of mats; it has an ivory knob, on the sides of which are hieroglyphics indicating 'boxes containing bracelets' and 'Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Hetepheres'; the bracelets are strung on two wooden bars at the ends of which is a gilded disc; the bracelets have polychrome inlay depicting stylised butterflies separated by a cornaline disc; the bodies and parts of the wings are made of lapis lazuli, the heads and most of the wings of turquoise, the tails of cornaline

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