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- Museum number
- EA20923
- Description
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Butt-end of a wooden axe-haft: charred at the top and much abraded. On the base is an inscription, which was once continued on the inner face of the haft with a conventional presentation formula, of which there now survives only the first word. The inscription was incised and then filled with yellow pigment. Some of the pigment is lost. There is a small surface crack in the cartouche.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.80 centimetres (max)
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Height: 4.50 centimetres (max)
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Weight: 29.80 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms' (London, 1904), 26, no. 104;
E. A. W. Budge, ‘A Guide to the Egyptian Galleries and Vestibule’ (London, 1909), 223;
H. Gauthier, 'Le Livre des Rois d'Égypte' II, 20, viii;
E. A. Wallis Budge 'A Guide to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms, and the Coptic Room' (London, 1922), 226, no. 104;
W. M. F. Petrie, ‘A History of Egypt. I. From the Earliest Kings to the XVIth Dynasty’ 10th ed. revised (London, 1923), 219-20;
J. von Beckerath, ‘Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten’ (Glückstadt, 1964), 242, XIII 21(1 3).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - burnt
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA20923
- Registration number
- 1886,1009.252