libation-bowl
- Museum number
- EA465
- Description
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Limestone libation-bowl: this fragment of a libation bowl bears a Hathor head on side and the remains of three figures at one end and an incised inscription along the rim consisting of a double dedication to Isis and T[aweret]. The son of the dedicant is named as Ḥr-Mnw. Only half of the bowl remains, and this section is broken and badly chipped. The three figures are cracked and chipped, and one is completely headless. There are no traces of colour.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 57 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'A guide to the Egyptian galleries (Sculpture)' (London, 1909), 181 (no. 651);
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' I (Part 2) (Oxford: Clarendon Press), ii. 746;
R. Holzl, 'Ägyptische Opfertafeln und Kultbecken : Eine Form- und Funktionsanalyse für das Alte, Mittlere und Neue Reich' (Hildesheim, 2002), 170.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA465
- Registration number
- .465
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.465 (Birch Slip Number)