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2. Amulet MS 5236 - Wikipedia

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   The actual, sunken letter lines were not transferred during the imprinting procedure, since they did not enter the surface of the foil. [6] It is the existence of these fine double grooves on the gold lamella which provides the key for identifying MS 5236 as being stamped and not written.

3. Neferuptah - Wikipedia

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   On her sarcophagus she is ‘member of the elite, great one of the hetes-sceptre, great of honour, beloved king’s daughter of his body’ (iryt-pat, wrt Hts, wrt Hzwt, zAt-niswt nt Xt.f mrt.f). Her name is written in a cartouche. On her middle coffin, only preserved in small fragments of gold foil, her sole title is ‘king’s daughter’.

4. 5 tiny gold foil figures have been found at a temple in Norway

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   Five gold figures have been found at a site in Norway. The miniature stamped foils give archaeologists insight into Scandinavian life over 1,400 years ago.

5. Seal (emblem) - Wikipedia

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   A letter writer would fold the completed letter, pour wax over the joint formed by the top of the page, and then impress a ring or other seal matrix. Governments sometimes sent letters to citizens under the governmental seal for their eyes only, known as letters secret.

6. Gold leaf - Wikipedia

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   A gold nugget of 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter (bottom) can be expanded through hammering into a gold foil of about 0.5 m 2 (5.4 sq ft). The Toi gold mine museum, Japan.. Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets (usually around 0.1 μm thick [1]) by a process known as goldbeating, [2] for use in gilding.

7. Metal leaf - Wikipedia

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   A small gold nugget 5 mm in diameter can be expanded to about 20,000 times its initial surface through hammering, producing a gold foil surface of about one half square meter with a thickness of 0.2–0.3 μm.