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Object Type
button
(?)
Museum number
EA64319
Description
Circular button (?): in opaque red glass, glossy surface. A ridge encircles the body just below the top. Circular vertical piercing. On the top surface are inlaid three squares of mosaic glass apparently depicting a standing bull, presumably the Apis. The background is bright blue, the body of the bull and the dais on which he stands dark blue, the sun disc on his head and the unidentifiable symbol before him yellow and the details above his back red and yellow.
Cultures/periods
Ptolemaic
(?)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Saqqara (Memphis)
Materials
glass
Technique
inlaid
pierced
mosaic
Dimensions
Diameter:
2.03 centimetres
Thickness:
0.78 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Cooney 1976 / Glass
(1838)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
ancient egyptian deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Apis
(?)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Rev Greville John Chester
Acquisition date
1882
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA64319
Registration number
1882,0510.12