Dossier 05 · Holdings
Plates and field reports
The archive's catalogued holdings, presented without interpretation beyond the curatorial note. Accession numbers are stable; captions are revised as readings improve.
Displayed: 6 of 2,214 · Reading room access by arrangement
PL-003
Uruk, stratum IV · fired clay · 31.4 × 28.9 cm
Descent of the whiskered host
Three descending figures above nine raised human hands. The upper register's rayed disc is not a sun; the rays terminate at the figures, not the ground.
PL-014
Thebes · pigment on plaster · 78 × 61 cm
Attendance register, Theban necropolis
Read as devotional by every prior curator. The archive notes the three ruled registers and identical postures: this is a roll being taken.
PL-027
Provenance disputed · limestone · 104 cm standing
Boundary marker with paw cartouche
The paw is enclosed in a cartouche, a device reserved in Egyptian usage for names of the ruling office. It is not decorative.
PL-041
Bubastis region · linen, pigment, gilt · one of ~1,000,000
Personnel wrapping, individual interment
Individually wrapped, masked and named. Livestock is not processed this way. Staff are.
PL-088
Late period · bronze with gold inlay · 14.2 cm
Standby effigy, drawer 88
Eyes inlaid with gold rather than carved. The archive holds 62 of these. Every one is seated. None are sleeping.
FR-402
Household observation site 11 · 35 mm, pushed · unfunded
Field report 402 — the 03:40 transit
Subject dormant for four hours prior. Photographed mid-circuit. No food was taken, nothing was pursued, and the circuit was completed in under four minutes.