ostracon

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: ostracon
Museum number: EA21055
Description: Limestone ostracon: on one side only, a scene in black ink depicting the ram of Amun 'rhn nfr'; behind the animal a part of the fan is visible.
Cultures/periods: 19th Dynasty (?); 20th Dynasty (?)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Medinet Habu (Thebes)
Materials: limestone
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Height: 8.50 centimetres (max); Width: 7.50 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: For similar scenes cf. E. Brunner-Traut, 'Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder’ (Wiesbaden, 1956), no. 80; J. Vandier d'Abbadie, 'Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Médineh '(Cairo 1937), p. 130 and pl. LXXXI.
Bibliographic references: Demaree 2002 / Ramesside Ostraca (pl.58)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair
Associated names: Representation of: Amun
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Sir Ernest A T Wallis Budge
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA21055
Registration number: 1888,0514.8

Free entry