ostracon;
votive offering(?)
- Museum number
- EA8508
- Description
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Limestone ostracon: on one side only, a scene painted in red and black depicting the workman Pennub adoring the goddess Meresger in the shape of a woman-headed snake. There is a hieroglyphic text above, perhaps a votive offering.
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.30 centimetres
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Weight: 0.93 kilograms
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Width: 28 centimetres
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Depth: 2.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For this common theme cf. B. Bruyère, 'Mert Seger à Deir el Médineh (Cairo 1930); E. Brunner-Traut, 'Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder’ (Wiesbaden, 1956), (Wiesbaden 1956), pp. 86—7.
Bibliography:
E. Hawkins, 'Tablets and other Egyptian Monuments from the collections of the Earl of Belmore' (London 1843), pl. 6.1;
B. Bruyère, 'Mert Seger à Deir el Médineh (Cairo 1930), p.III, fig.50;
Morris Bierbrier, 'The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs' (London, 1982), p.88, fig.62.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2002, St Albans, Life and Death
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
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA8508
- Registration number
- 1843,0507.8.c
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.8508 (Birch Slip Number)
