scribal palette;
reed pen;
pigment sample
- Museum number
- EA23176
- Description
-
Wooden scribal palette, rectangular, with two circular wells at one end, containing black and red pigment, and groove for holding reed pens, the pens held in by tenon, now missing.
- Dimensions
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Length: 6.90 centimetres
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Weight: 39 grammes
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Width: 0.50 centimetres
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Depth: 4.30 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete and cracked)
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA23176
- Registration number
- 1889,1014.9