jar-sealing
- Museum number
- EA35608
- Description
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Part of a jar-seal: baked pale red by fire, bearing the impression of a seal showing a row of seated figures of Djer in the regalia of the Sed-festival. The figures wear the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt alternately.
- Dimensions
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Length: 13 centimetres (max)
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Width: 11 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, pl.XV, 108;
H. R. Hall, 'Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs etc. in the British Museum: Volume 1 : Royal scarabs' (London, 1913), 287, no.2755;
P. Kaplony, 'Die Inschriften der Ägyptischen Frühzeit III (Wiesbaden, 1964), pl.67, abb.237; see also vols. I, 76 and II, 738, n. 353; 1124.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Sed festival
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA35608
- Registration number
- 1901,1012.108
