toy;
game-ball
- Museum number
- EA46709
- Description
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Toy ball made of linen, hollow, exterior elaborated with red and green segmented decoration form by strips of reed, with circular fragments of reed at either end, damaged.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Weight: 37 grammes
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Width: 6.50 centimetres
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Depth: 6.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published:
Estensen, Parsons, and Wilson, World History I, (1990), p.117.
Hart, Eyewitness Guides: Ancient Egypt, (1990), p.52.
Janssen and Janssen, Growing Up in Ancient Egypt, (1990), fig.19.
Musées de Marseilles, Jouer dans l'antiquité, (1991), fig.77.
Quirke and Spencer, BM Book of Ancient Egypt, (London, 1992), fig.11.
Shaw and Nicholson, BM Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, (1995), p.294.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA46709
- Registration number
- 1907,0612.8
