sculpture(?);
offering spoon(?)
- Description
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Sculpture (?) carved from steatite representing the head of a gazelle; maybe belonging to an offering spoon (?).
- Production date
- 664 BC - 525 BC (?)
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by Chautauqua Institution, New York. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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This figure is lost. According to the Chautauqua distribution list of the Egypt Exploration Fund, this institution received one ‘steatite head of gazelle’.
It could be related other offering spoons found at Naukratis, such as British Museum 1888,0601.72 (published in Gardner 1888, 87, pl. XIX, no. 8) and 1888,0601.76, which show respectively the head of an ibex and a bound oryx. Offering spoons in the shape of bound bovids (oryx, ibex...) are quite common in the Late Period.
Gardner, E. A. 1888, Naukratis. Part II (Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund), London.
On offering spoons in general:
Bulté, J. 2008, '“Cuillers d’offrandes” en faïence et en pierre messagères de bien-être et de prospérité', Revue d’Égyptologie 59, Paris, 1-32.
Wallert, I. 1967, ‘Der verzierte Löffel: seine Formgeschichte und Verwendung im alten Ägypten’, Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 16, Wiesbaden.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: unknown (Accession Number)
