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Description
An openwork gold plaque: decorated with figures of the king offering to a god. The scene represents King Makherure (Amenemhat IV) offering a vase of unguent to Atum, god of the setting sun. The frame is composed of two uprights supporting the sign for heaven ('pt') with a bar along the bottom. The god wears the double crown with uraeus, a collar and a tunic with straps over his shoulders. From his sloping belt hangs a tail, now broken. The front of his kilt is tied in the 'Girdle of Isis' knot ('tit'). In his right hand he carries an 'ankh-amulet and in his left a 'was'-sceptre. He is bearded. The king wears the 'khat' bag-wig with uraeus, the kilt with tail and the 'shendiyt'-apron. He holds an unguent container in his hands. Between the two figures are the hieroglyphs. Gold spacer-bar: from a bracelet, made in the form of a flat box enclosed at the ends and open at the sides. Twelve tubes run across the width of the box between upper and lower plates, rolled from incompletely joined strips of gold. There is a roughly scratched inscription on the base which lies between two horizontal lines. On top of the box recline three cats with heads erect and facing forward, their bodies lying to the left. Their back legs are stretched out in front of them, and their front paws are crossed. The legs are all made from beaten wire. Beaten notched wire tails curl around in front of the legs. The heads and bodies were probably not cast but made by hand; details were added with roughly-cut lines. The faces have details of eyes, noses and mouths and a rather smug expression; the ears were added separately. Gold spacer-bar: from a bracelet, made in the form of a flat box enclosed at the ends and open at the sides. Twelve tubes run across the width of the box between upper and lower plates, rolled from incompletely joined strips of gold. There is a roughly scratched inscription on the base which lies between two horizontal lines. On top of the box recline three cats with heads erect and facing forward, their bodies lying to the right. Their back legs are stretched out in front of them, and their front paws are crossed. The legs are all made from beaten wire. Beaten notched wire tails curl around in front of the legs. The heads and bodies were probably not cast but made by hand; details were added with roughly-cut lines. The faces have details of eyes, noses and mouths and a rather smug expression; the ears were added separately. Gold finger-ring set with lapis lazuli scarab; name of Intef on base. A lapis lazuli scarab: with details of the head alone marked, set in a gold funda as a ring bezel. Three holes are drilled at each side of the scarab, and two more, one at each end of the body. Into the side holes fit legs of gold wire which are joined to the rim of the funda. The funda itself is made from a plate of sheet gold with a rim around it. At either end are soldered rings to protect the scarab. The shank which goes under the scarab between its body and the funda looks as though it might be made from a piece of beaten wire rather than from a tube made from a strip of wire. Thin twisted gold wire is wound around the upper part of the shank on both sides of the scarab; one of the wires goes through the scarab to hold it in position. Silver impurities can be seen on the gold rim of the funda. On the base of the gold funda is inscribed the name Intef, not in a cartouche. Green jasper and gold heart-scarab of Sobekemsaf II: the human-headed jasper scarab is inset into a cloison in a hollow sheet gold plinth with a rounded back end. The rim of the cloison itself has been inset with an undulating strip of sheet gold to give the effect of granulation. T
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