jar-sealing;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- EA35510
- Description
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Part of a clay jar-seal: with the impression of a repeated design, showing a bird and the r-sign hieroglyph. The seal is fairly well preserved, the inscribed surface being slightly worn.
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.14 centimetres
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Thickness: 5.14 centimetres
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Width: 8.22 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, pl. XIII, 96;
H. R. Hall, 'Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs etc. in the British Museum: Volume 1 : Royal scarabs' (London, 1913), 286, no. 2749;
P. Kaplony, 'Die Inschriften der Ägyptischen Frühzeit III, (Wiesbaden, 1964), pl. 7, abb. 13.
- Location
- On display (G64/dc10)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003, Apr-Oct, Graz, Eggenberg Palace, 'The Tower of Babel'
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA35510
- Registration number
- 1901,1012.10
