figure
- Museum number
- EA9736
- Description
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Painted wooden figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris from the assemblage of Hornedjitef; the face is covered in gold leaf; headdress lost; Hieroglyphic text on figure and pedestal.
- Production date
- 332BC-31BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.50 centimetres
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Height: 57.50 centimetres
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Length: 40.20 centimetres
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Width: 11.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Mentioned:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, London 1997, p. 30.
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, p. 58 [28].
Quaegebeur, Hundred-gated Thebes, 142;
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 294-7.
- Location
- On display (G62/dc20)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1986 Jun-Oct, Carmarthen Museum, A son of Luxor's Sands
1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
- Condition
- fair (incomplete -headdress missing)
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA9736
- Registration number
- .9736
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.9736 (Birch Slip Number)
