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Object Type
Museum number: EA50698
Description: Wooden figure of a baboon on a rectangular base; overlaid with plastered(?) linen.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tomb of Thutmose III (?)
Materials: wood; plaster (?); linen
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 31 centimetres; Height: 36 centimetres; Length: 29.50 centimetres; Width: 21 centimetres
Curator's comments: Reeves in Complete Valley of the Kings, 133, now ascribes these objects to the tomb of Horemheb.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
Condition: fair (cartonnage chipped and one foot broken)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1912
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA50698
Registration number: 1912,0210.38
Conservation: Treatment: 12 May 1999; Treatment: 23 Sep 1998; Treatment: 21 Sep 2010

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