ink-well
- Museum number
- EA22015
- Description
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Blue glazed composition ink-well.
- Production date
- 1st-2nd century AD
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.20 centimetres
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Weight: 121 grammes
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Width: 6.30 millimetres
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Depth: 6.20 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A tube projects downwards from the central hole into the interior; this was probably for dipping the pen. The other hole, at the side, may have been used for filling and cleaning out the container and would have been kept plugged when the inkwell was in use. (Coutts 1988, 93)
Published:
H. Coutts, 1998. Gold of the Pharaohs, pp. 92-93 [68/C].
F. Petrie, Tanis I, p.45
C. Favard-Meeks.1998. 'Mise à jour des ouvrages de Flinders Petrie sur les fouilles de Tanis' in Brissaud, Philippe and Christiane Zivie-Coche (eds), Tanis: travaux récents sur le Tell Sân el-Hagar [1], p.130.
I. Regulski (ed.), 2022. Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt, pp. 225-6
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015, 19th June - 5th Sept. Wrexham County Borough Museum. Egyptian Written Culture.
2016 12 Mar-8 May, Carlisle, Tullie House, Writing for Eternity
2016 20 May-4 Sept, The Salisbury Museum, Writing for Eternity
2016 16 Sept-10 Jan 2017, Abergavenny Museum, Writing for Eternity
2017 21 Jan-21 May, Museum of Hartlepool, Writing for Eternity
2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA22015
- Registration number
- 1885,0101.7