toy
- Museum number
- EA38540
- Description
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Toy mouse, with body modelled in poorly fired ceramic, decorated with brownish-purple paint. The lower jaw is of wood and is moveable (pivoting around wooden pins through main body). A wooden toggle pin is attached to the lower jaw by a string enabling movement.
- Dimensions
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Height: 15 centimetres
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Weight: 0.066 kilograms
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Width: 3.20 centimetres
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Depth: 33 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For examples of toys found at Lahun, see R. David in Glimpses of Ancient Egypt. Studies in Honour of H.W. Fairman (1979), 12-15.
- Location
- On display (G61/dc4/sB)
- Condition
- Good.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA38540
- Registration number
- OC.38540