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- Museum number
- EA6233
- Description
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Fragment of a mosaic throne: the fragment is from the relief representation of the lower side of a throne of a deity. The upper part of the preserved portion is decorated with alternating black and white squares. At the base of this area is a border of rectangular elements (which also runs around the four outer borders) in opaque red, white, and brown. Below is a frieze of ankh-sign flanked by sceptres supporting the head of the Seth-animal, both opaque white on a dark-blue field. Below these signs is the usual register of the nb-sign hieroglyph in white and black squares on a red field. Mounted on a pale-amber, almost colourless, glass panel. Lower left section lost.
- Production date
- 1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.10 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.82 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The work is very fine but the condition is poor. At an unknown period the surface was exposed to fire with resulting damage.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1840
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6233
- Registration number
- 1840,1215.11
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6233 (Birch Slip Number)