- Object Type
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tool/implement
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x9696
- Museum number
- EA67819
- Description
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Copper forked implement: traces of organic material on the tang suggest it was originally fitted with a wooden or bone handle.
- Authority
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BIOG54242
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Ruler: Khufu
- Cultures/periods
-
x13561
-
4th Dynasty
- Materials
-
x10626
-
copper
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.55 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.09 centimetres
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Width: 5.19 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sometimes identified as a sculptor's tool, it was more probably used to manipulate ropes, as were similar instruments from the Roman Period.
Bibliography:
'L'art egyptien au temps des pyramides' [exhibition catalogue] (Paris, 1999), p. 185 [35];
'Pharao siegt immer : Krieg und Frieden im alten Ägypten' [exhibition catalogue] (Bönen, 2004), p.253, Cat no.63;
Hoelzl (ed.), 'Die Pyramiden Agyptens - Monumente der Ewigkeit' (2004), p.253, Cat. 63;
C. P. Smyth, ‘Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid’ 4th ed. (London, 1880), p. 429;
R. Stadelmann, ‘Die sogenannten Luftkanäle der Cheopspyramide: Modellkorridore
für den Aufstieg des Königs zum Nimmel’, ‘Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäeologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo’ 50 (1994), pp. 287-88, pl. 55;
M. Lehner, ‘The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries’ (London/New York, 1997), p. 112.
- Bibliographic references
-
BIB6094
-
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999 / Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (37)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2004, 30 Apr-1 Nov, Schallaburg,---- 'Die Pyramiden Agyptens'
2013 Jan - May, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, In the Shadow of Pyramids
- Condition
- incomplete - handle missing, metal oxidised
- Acquisition name
-
BIOG55467
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Donated by: Mrs M E Porteous
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA67819
- Registration number
- 1972,0722.2
- Conservation
-
Treatment: 21 Feb 2012
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99940:1
