ostracon
- Museum number
- EA8507
- Description
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Limestone ostracon: on the recto a scene in black ink depicting a monkey eating from a bowl filled with pomegranates. On the verso four incomplete lines of a legal text.
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
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Weight: 227 grammes
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Width: 17.20 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
legal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
S.Quirke & J.Spencer (eds), British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt (London 1992), p.219, fig.169
For scenes with monkeys on ostraca cf. E. Brunner-Traut, 'Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder’ (Wiesbaden, 1956), pp. 111ff.; J.Vandier d'Abbadie, , 'Revue d'Égyptologie' 18 (1966), pp. 198—9; J. Quaegebeur,'Les singes et la répresentation de leur pieds en Égypte ancienne', 'Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia' 32 (Leuven, 1993), pp. 3-28.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited
2013, Apr - Jul, Paris, Louvre, L'Art Du Contour
2013/2014, Sept - Jan, Musée royaux d’art et d’histoire, Brussels, L'Art Du Contour
2018 -2019, 6 Sep - 20 Jan, London, BM, G35, I Object
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA8507
- Registration number
- 1843,0507.120
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.8507 (Birch Slip Number)
