basin(sha-basin)
- Museum number
- EA36855
- Description
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Fragment of a massive basin, more specifically sha-basin, carved from dark grey basalt; inscribed.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.20 centimetres (max)
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Length: 7.30 centimetres (max)
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Thickness: 4.15 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Sha-basins are ritual basins (Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache vol. IV, 1971, 401, 2) particularly typical of the Ptolemaic period (Yoyotte 1994-95, 674).
This sha-basin was discovered to the north side of the Great Temenos (“inner side of north wall”). It was discovered with BM 1885,1101.22 according to Petrie diary 1884-1885: “in the later period (Roman) chambers built inside the temenos wall fragment of a black basalt bowl some 2 or 3 feet diam[eter] & 3 or 4 in[che]s deep. Bes standing on the outer face, & a line of demotic, & on the top edge the feet of a standing figure; another fragment with more demotic was found later on.”
On this sha-basin, see: Petrie 1886, 34, pl. XXXVI, 4; Gardner 1888, 81, pl. XXIII, 4; Yoyotte 1994-95, 674 (with wrong ref. to Gardner 1888), 675.
Gardner, E. A. 1888, Naukratis. Part II (Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund), London.
Petrie, W.M.F. 1886, Naukratis. Part I., 1884–5 (third memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund), London.
Yoyotte, J., 1994/95, ‘Les contacts entre Égyptiens et Grecs (viie-iie siècles avant J.-C.) : Naucratis, ville égyptienne’, Annuaire du Collège de France.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA36855
- Registration number
- 1885,1101.23