bird-net(?);
fishing-net(?)
- Museum number
- EA36886
- Description
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Net of flax cord, presumably used for fishing or bird-catching.
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres (gathered up)
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Length: 44 centimetres (gathered up)
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Width: 51.50 centimetres (gathered up (checked))
- Curator's comments
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Published:
G. Hart. Eyewitness Guides: Ancient Egypt. (1990). p. 45.
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I. Gammer-wallert, Fische und Fischkult im alten Ägypten (Berlin, 1970).
D. J. Brewer and R. F. Friedman, Fish and fishing in ancient Egypt (Warminster, 1989).
Finer meshed fishing nets have been found at Gurob, in New Kingdom contexts (Petrie Museum UC27885 ii).
- Location
- On display (G61/dc6/sB)
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA36886
- Registration number
- 1862,0819.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.5507a (Birch Slip Number)