jar-sealing
- Museum number
- EA27742
- Description
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A conical jar-seal: of yellow clay, originally bearing four impressed inscriptions of Den, of which only two are now clearly discernible, and only one of these is sufficiently well preserved to show details of the inscription. There are signs which accompany the name of the king on this seal. The surface of the clay is firm but considerably worn.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 19 centimetres (base)
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Height: 16 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, pl.XVII, 135;
H. R. Hall, 'Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs etc. in the British Museum: Volume 1 : Royal scarabs' (London, 1913), 288, no.2760;
P. Kaplony, 'Die Inschriften der Ägyptischen Frühzeit III (Wiesbaden, 1964), pl.50, abb.186; see also vols. I, 91 and II, 751, n.468; 1116.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA27742
- Registration number
- 1897,0112.25