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ostracon
;
forgery
Object Type
ostracon
forgery
Museum number
EA43476
Description
Limestone ostracon: on one side only, a clumsy sketch of a king's head beneath the formula ḥtp-dỉ-nswt. Most probably a fake.
Cultures/periods
New Kingdom
(Probably a fake)
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Deir el-Medina (Thebes)
Materials
limestone
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Height:
18.20 centimetres
Width:
10 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Extremely simple or clumsy drawings of human or royal heads are well known among the figured ostraca, cf. for example O. Cairo 25157 and O Stockholm MM 14139 and 14140; for similar ostraca from Th. M. Davis's excavations 1905/6, cf. C.N. Reeves, 'Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo' 40 (1984), pl. 33b.
Bibliographic references
Demaree 2002 / Ramesside Ostraca
(pl.97)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(391903)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/391903)
Location
Not on display
Condition
good
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
William Talbot Ready
Acquisition date
1907
Acquisition notes
Rustafjaell collection, Sotheby sale 19-21 December 1906, lot 277
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA43476
Registration number
1907,0112.86