foundation-deposit;
plaque
- Museum number
- EA23556,a
- Description
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Part of a foundation-deposit: a thick rectangular plaque of glazed composition bearing an engraved vertical inscription on one side, read from right to left, with the cartouches of King Psamtek I between two vertical lines. All sides, except the back, show traces of a brown-green glazed slip.
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.20 centimetres
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Weight: 36 grammes
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Thickness: 1.10 centimetres
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Width: 3.25 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography: see also PM IV, p. 7; Weinstein, Foundations deposits, 1973, p. 327.
"NE" has been scored on the back of the item, meaning the "North-Eastern" corner of the casemate building.
See also Cairo, EM, JE 27385, Boston, MFA, 87.528-529, 87.719-20, 87.653 and Berlin ÄMP 10080 (destroyed during WWII).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2016 8 Mar-12 Jun, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2018 7 Jun-16 Sep, Barcelona, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2018-2019 16 Oct-20 Jan, Madrid, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2019 19 Feb-25 Aug, Girona, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2019-2020 24 Sept-12 Jan, Seville, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA23556,a
- Registration number
- 1887,0101.1354
