paint-stone;
paint-grinder
- Museum number
- EA5547
- Description
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Pigment grinder and stone: a rectangular basalt slab with an oval depression for grinding pigment. The oval is surrounded by a lightly incised cartouche. The slab was acquired together with a basalt grinding stone.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.40 centimetres
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Weight: 383 grammes
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Width: 7.20 centimetres
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Depth: 11.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
T.G.H.James, 'Egyptian Painting and Drawing in the British Museum' (London, 1985), 11;
K.A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated translations' 2 (Oxford, 1996), 847;
M.A. Corzo, 'Nefertari Luce d'Egitto' (Rome, 1994), 217 [74].
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July - September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA5547
- Registration number
- .5547
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.5547 (Birch Slip Number)
