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MM 14121 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, irregularly shaped. On one side, there is a sketch in black and red, on the other side traces of a drawing in red. The sketch in black and red was originally portraying a heart with six horizontal lines with writing on them. The text is a poor version of chapter 30 B in the Book of the Dead. The inscription does not contain any personal names. On the reverse side are very faint traces in red of a sketch. Limestone.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

MM 14121

Serie nummer

5498

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

Time - Acquisition

1935

Acquisition

Gift from R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped. On one side, there is a sketch in black and red, on the other side traces of a drawing in red. The sketch in black and red was originally portraying a heart with six horizontal lines with writing on them. The text is a poor version of chapter 30 B in the Book of the Dead. The inscription does not contain any personal names. On the reverse side are very faint traces in red of a sketch. Limestone.

Period

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

Period, Swedish

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

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-1315

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-1081

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

Comments

Former museum no. E 4121. R.G. Gayer-Anderson Collection no 121.

Publications

Van Siclen, C.C., Book review of a work by A. Gasse (title unknown) in Varia Aegyptiaca 3/2 August 1987

Siclen, Varia Aegyptiaca, 3, 1987, 169-170

Peterson, B., Zeichnungen aus einer Totenstadt, MedMusB, No 7-8 (1973), 106, No.140, Taf.76.

Keller, C., JARCE 25, 252

Keller, C., Fragments of a shattered visage, 52

PhotoNegNo

Dig. neg. MM14121a. Museum neg.1486.

Reference - Published in

Peterson, Bengt E.J. (1973) "Zeichnungen aus einer Totenstadt" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 7-8 (1973).

Source - http: libris.kb.se, books.google.se, archive.org

Length / Längd

16,1 cm

Width / Bredd

16,2 cm

Dimensions

L.16.1 cm, W.16.2 cm

Condition

Fragmentary

Original register

Egypt

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