plaque; foundation-deposit

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Object Type: plaque; foundation-deposit
Museum number: EA18562
Description: Foundation-deposit: rectangular plaque made of glazed composition, bearing a vertical inscription between two vertical lines engraved on both sides, read from right to left, with the cartouches (prenomen on one side, nomen on the other) of King Apries present. All sides show traces of a light green to beige glaze slip.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tell Dafana
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 4.20 centimetres; Thickness: 0.65 centimetres; Width: 2.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Curator's comments: Biliography: see also PM IV p. 7; Hall, Scarabs I, p. 295; MMAF 12, p. 68, fig. 26. See a similar plaque of Apries, also coming from Tell Dafana, in Cairo, EM, JE 27386
Bibliographic references: Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (p. 51 § 49, p. 75 § 72, pl.xl, 7); Hall 1913 / Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc. in the British Museum (2807, p. 295); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.43, p.55, p.175, pl.17)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair, partly repaired : broken in 4 pieces, 2 reunited, one missing in the middle
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA18562
Registration number: 1887,0101.728

Free entry