clapper
- Museum number
- EA30866
- Description
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Curved clapper in the form of a left hand and forearm with an elaborate incised bracelet: inscribed with hieroglyphs, the hand has a broken thumb. The elongated fingers have the nails carved out, and there is a slight depression between each of the digits. The wrist shows an elaborate bracelet. The curved forearm is rounded at the end and pierced with a hole.
- Dimensions
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Length: 24 centimetres
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Weight: 0.074 kilograms
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Width: 3.20 centimetres
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Depth: 1.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W.M.F. Petrie, 'Diospolis Parva' (1901), pp. 51 [77], 53 [83,84], and pl.xxvii.
The right hand is in the Chicago Oriental Institute, no. 5518; B. Porter and R. B. L. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography', v (1937), p. 109
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (thumb broken)
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA30866
- Registration number
- 1899,1017.22
