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13.10.11.2 Intact, chipped at the entrance to both piercing, one end having quite severe chips. Discoloured with black and white deposits.
13.10.3 Single piece, Intact, but broken off at the pointed end. The surface has dulled to a mottled medium brown with flecks of dark grey (slightly lighter in colour on one side).
13.10.6 Single piece, perhaps broken off at the bottom (flaring end of the 'heart'). The shiny blackish-brown surface has acquired a green patina in patches.
14.9.43 Extremely streaky black paint on interior surface. Some black is wearing from the exterior surface but only towards the lower end of the fragment.
16.2.1 Incomplete and repaired. Glaze has lost lustre, and much has eroded, especially over the 'tail' end, leaving greyish-buff colour. A later segment has been added to body to replace a missing piece.
2006.12.16 Fragment; one end of handle possibly glued in earlier restoration
2008.7.147 Fragment. Wash on interior and exterior is heavily chipped. Both ridges are chipped away at one end.
2008.7.74 Fragment broken on six sides; interior: black overpaint slightly worn at edges of fragment; interior: chips to the end of the fragment with the vertical curvature and both lines of black overpaint
23.11.31K2 The points of two of the triangular elements are missing. There is a break in the circle of the wreath, where one end has pushed up over the other.
34.10.12 Handle missing; end of nozzle worn as is top of knob and around base and lip. White deposits on body surface.
45.10.22 There are only 18 fragments preserved from this vessel. These consist of parts of the rim, neck, shoulder and body. a: It is repaired from two fragments, rejoined. Part of the rim (the smallest part of two), neck (including the spring of a triple handle) and shoulder (these consist the second part of this fragment). The fragment is chipped off in many areas (rim: ca. 5 spots/ interior of neck: ca. 10 spots/ neck: ca. 4 spots. There are also gouges on the joining points of the two parts. The upper part (bigger part) of the handle is missing. Apart from tiny bits that have been peeled off from the interior and few deposits, the glaze and colour are preserved in a good condition. b: It consists of three rejoined parts from the vessel's neck. Few bits are missing on the joining point and a spot has even been chipped off, there are deposits and cracking of the colour on the interior, as well as another spot that has been chipped off. Three shallow carvings are also apparent. c: It consists of three parts joined together (two big ones and a small one). Deposits on the interior, three scratches on the exterior, tiny bits that have pitted off and spot that has chipped off from the lower left end. d: Part of the body, colour has fadded away in some spots, and a part has been peeled off. Deposits. e: Part of the body. Deposits but in very good condition, apart from two areas that are chipped off and small bits that are pitted off. f: Part of the body. Apart from deposits in a very good condition. g: Part of the body. Deposits, otherwise in a very good condition. h: Part of the body. Few, tiny bits have been peeled off, also few deposits. i: It consists of two parts of the body. ca. 5 bits have been pitted off and three spots are chipped off; deposits. j: Small fragment in very good condition. k: Small fragment from the body; deposits. l: Small fragment from the body; deposits.
45.6.70 Intact, small amount of chipping on the base. Blackening around the tip of the nozzle sugggesting use.Large amount of grey deposit on the front end of the body and nozzle. Small amount of wick hole cut in still apparent. A piece of grain? in the wick hole.
50.10.4 The rim has been reconstructed from 2 fragments repaired. The handle has also been rejoined with the vessel and the whole of the upper part (from rim to end of shoulder) has been reattached to the body. The glaze is shiny in places but has begun to crack in others. There are also deposits on the rim, neck, shoulder and foot / base. Several bits have pitted off from the body.
50.4.23 Intact, slight anomaly on the left hand side of the nozzle, ware all over the lamp with considerable amounts of wash missing. Outer ring around the discus is misshapen in one place, probably happened in manufacture. Protruding form on the discus has been broken off. Grey deposit in places, blackening at the end of the nozzle, probably from use.
51.4.1 The handle is missing, leaving marks (vertical ridges) on the surface. The left (lower) end of the fragment has been chipped off.
71.12.5 Two holes have been restored with transparent material. The end of the strigil is damaged. Discolouration of bronze to green, blue and black. Only a couple of areas of the true bronze colour remains. A couple of cracks have appeared making the object fragile.
78.12.17 Intact, small chip on rim, blackening at the end of the wick rest, probably from use. Large amount of white deposit all over.
78.12.18 Intact, a few chips around outside of rim, scratches on inside and underside. Base roughened. Small amount of black at the end of the wick rest, white deposit in places. Two small holes, one on the underside of the rim, the other on the base. Unglazed.
79.1.12 Intact, small chip to the end of the spout. Wash is wearing, especially at the back of the lamp. large amount of deposit visible through the wick hole. Small amount of deposit on the exterior, more on the base. Nozzle tip blackened, possibly from use.
79.1.14 Complete and intact. End of nozzle blackened due to use. A few chips around rim.
79.1.8 Complete, decoration very worn, filling hole is irregular; this may be due to it's production. Nozzle tip is blackened; probably from usage. nozzle end is scored with many lines. White deposit in places.
E.23.14 One end is missing as it has been chipped. Some spots of discolouration on both sides.
E.23.43.1 Intact, but one end has been broken of, the snap mark is visible. Also the glaze has totally worn off although the colour remians.
E.23.61 Intact and complete. The only detail missing is the curl from the end of the line originating from the underside of the eye. The glaze has totally rubbed away.
E.62.51 Intact. On the underside the wood is apparently water damaged and there is some rotting at the end of the cobra where it presumably once joined to the larger object (crown). There is a large crack on the underside near the very top head of the cobra.
E.65.13 Intact, although it is only fragmentary. The blue glaze remains, although it is not present on either end indicating it has been snapped off.
E.65.15 Intact if fragmentary, no colour is lost although the surface is rough in some areas suggesting a loss in glaze, one end displays characteristics of having been snapped of a larger object.
REDMG:1926.99.52 Surface stained dark, perhaps with modern glaze. Some decoration worn and scratched off; alabastron cracked and repaired at the back end of the sphinx.
REDMG:1964.1608.1 Intact, chips all around the edge of the foot, on the left hand side of the shoulder, filling hole rim, on the top of the nozzle and at the end of the nozzle. Wash worn and chiped in places, deposit mostly on interior.
REDMG:1964.1612.1 End of nozzle completely broken off, Handle has numerous chips, glaze is worn and chipped in places. White deposit over the base, handle and nozzle.
TEMP.2003.7.6 The exterior is dirtier than the other slide, and slightly scratched at the left end. The other side is in a better condition, with a few areas where paint has been scratched away.
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