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Heckle, with frame in wood and teeth in iron. Rectangular frame with extended handle. Used in dressing flax.

Heckle, for dressing flax, with a wooden handle, heart-shaped iron tang and long, slightly curved iron teeth, set at a right angle to the handle (one tooth missing).

Heckle for dressing flax, with wooden frame (one end is broken) and iron teeth, carder shape: rectangular. Reid 1912, p45, has illustration labelled A508, but the illustration is actually of A509 (a bigger heckle with round carder).

Wooden handle, iron teeth and tang. Tang is heart-shaped, with central rib. Used in dressing flax.

The scarab beetle was the symbol of the god Khopri and represeented new life and resurrection. Ordinary scarabs, or paste or stone, were simply seals and were worn as amulets by everybody in later times. Scarabs were also used as amulets on mummies…

Headrest, in wood, in four pieces. Long rectangular base, two sections of the octaganal shaft, and abacus and curve as one piece. Attachment by long wooden dowel and two pieces of wood on shaft - bottom and top sections. Funerary use. New Kingdom…

Italian headdress (silou) bought at Bergamo.