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Object Type: figure
Museum number: EA45084
Description: Body of a wooden ibis or trussed ox (traces of painted plaster on the surface). According to Zitman (2010, 229 (II)) it joins EA45083 and an unnumbered leg.
Cultures/periods: First Intermediate
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Asyut (town), Tomb 46, shaft 1
Materials: wood; plaster
Technique: painted; plastered
Dimensions: Length: 32.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Zitman 2010 / The necropolis of Assiut: a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom (II, 229)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair (incomplete -body only)
Subjects: bird (?); cattle (?)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Dr David George Hogarth
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA45084
Registration number: 1907,0511.44

Free entry