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MM 14060 :: Artist's sketch, Ostracon

Object description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped. Sketch on one side with details outlined in black. Two cats on their hind legs, facing each other, with sticks in the paws, are surrounding a naked human which is defecating. The cats are hitting the human with the sticks. The right hand cat is fragmentary, only the front paws are visible. The human person is naked except for some decorative ribbons around the upper body. The hair is tied in tails. To the left is a podium with a faint pillar and a canopy or some kind of cover.

Mounted with metal pins on fabric.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

MM 14060

Serie nummer

6481

Object

Artist's sketch; Ostracon

Object, Swedish

Ostrakon; Konstnärs-skiss; Ostraka

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Deir el Medineh

Material

Limestone; Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten; Kalksten

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition, Egyptian galleries, Medelhavsmuseet; Egyptian gallery 6, showcase C, wall

Acquisition

Gift from R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description, Swedish

Konstnärsskiss, ostraka.

Description

Mounted with metal pins on fabric.

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: collections.smvk.se
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Previously

Egypten, 1982-2012

Description: The Egyptian exhibition shows various aspects of life in Pharaonic Egypt from 3000 BC to the Christian era. There are also many objects from the prehistoric period, starting around 5000 BC. Most of the objects came to Sweden in the late 19:century, and have been donated to the museum from private collections.
The Egyptian Exhibition contains, in addition to mummified humans, also mummies of cats, birds, fishes and snakes. The Goddess Isis with the child Horus in her lap meets the visitors as they enter the exhibition. The pose she holds occurs commonly in western art where the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus often is portrayed in the same position.
A portrait of the well-known pharaoh Sesostris was donated to Sweden by the Egyptian government in recognition both of Swedish participation when the Assuan-dam was built and of professor Torgny Säve-Söderbergh as an internationally well-known Egyptologist. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2010-09-01)
The exhibition was made already in 1982. In 2002 there was a change, several of the galleries (4-8) on the upper floor were closed.
Time - Start: 19821982
Time - End: 20122012

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Egyptian gallery 6, showcase C

Cf Publications

Brunner-Traut, E., Altägyptishce tiergeschichte und Fabel. Gestalt und Strahlkraft, Darmstadt 1968, Abb. 9 (Chicago 13 951) and Abb. 11 (Cairo 29/12/21/2)

Publications

Peterson, B., Zeichnungen aus einer Totenstadt, MedMusB, No 7-8 (1973), 102, No130, taf. 67

Brunner-Traut, E., Altägyptische tiergeschichte und Fabel, Gestalt und Strahlkraft, Darmstadt, 1968, 14 (12a, 3)

5000 år egyptisk konst, 1961, nr 123

PhotoNegNo

1436 (glass).

Reference - Published in

Babcock, Jennifer Miyuki (2022). Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables : Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice / Jennifer Miyuki Babcock [Elektronisk resurs]. Brill

Source - http: libris.kb.se, books.google.se, www.researchgate.net

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

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

Length / Längd

8 cm

Width / Bredd

14,2 cm

Dimensions

L. 8 cm, W. 14.2 cm

Condition

Fragmentary

Original register

Egypt

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