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Object Type
base
Museum number
EA47552
Description
Red and white painted wooden plinth with two rectangular holes in the top for the tenons to hold the figure(now lost).
Cultures/periods
6th Dynasty
(?)
First Intermediate
(?)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Dr David George Hogarth
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Asyut (town)
Materials
wood
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Height:
4.70 centimetres
Length:
30.40 centimetres
Width:
13.10 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Zitman suggests this object is from tomb 35 as it is very similar to EA47549 and EA47551.
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, 224)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair (incomplete)
Acquisition date
1907
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA47552
Registration number
1907,0511.451