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MM 14090 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, fragmentary sketches on both sides in black and red. On one side is the upper body of a monkey, facing right. It is playing a double flute, which is only marked by single lines. The face is painted red, the fur highlighted by small black dots. On the reverse side is the upper part of the neck, and the head of a dog, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth. A collar is faintly outlined around its neck. The dog is outlined in black and coloured red. Limestone.

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Inventory number

MM 14090

Serie nummer

5461

Object

artist's sketch; ostracon

Object, Swedish

ostrakon; konstnärs-skiss

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Deir el Medineh

Material

Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten

Exhibitions

Utlån Lovisa stadsmuseum 2009-05-15 - 2009-09-13

Acquisition

Gift from R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935

Time - Acquisition

1935

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Ostracon, fragmentary sketches on both sides in black and red. On one side is the upper body of a monkey, facing right. It is playing a double flute, which is only marked by single lines. The face is painted red, the fur highlighted by small black dots. On the reverse side is the upper part of the neck, and the head of a dog, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth. A collar is faintly outlined around its neck. The dog is outlined in black and coloured red. Limestone.

Period

New Kingdom, 19-20th Dynasty (1315-1081 BC)

Period, Swedish

19-20e dynastin (1315-1081 f Kr), Nya riket

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: vocab.getty.edu, collections.smvk.se, digitaltmuseum.org, id.loc.gov
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org, viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

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