inlay
- Museum number
- EA22469
- Description
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Mosaic glass border: rectangular in section. On an opaque orange-red field, a vertical register of seven lotus flowers in profile. The calyx and stem are yellow, the petals are white and black. Possibly the black elements are intended as sepals. Glossy surface.
- Production date
- 1stC BC-1stC
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.22 centimetres
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Width: 0.65 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
H. Coutts, 'Gold of the Pharaohs' (Edinburgh 1988), p. 97 [89];
W. M. F. Petrie 'et al.', 'Tanis' I (1885), 37, top of right column;
C. Favard-Meeks in P. Brissaud & C. Zivie-Coche (eds), 'Tanis : travaux récents sur le tell Sân el-Hagar : Mission française des fouilles de Tanis, 1987-1997' (1998), p. 117.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA22469
- Registration number
- 1885,0101.243