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MM 14116 :: Artist's sketch, Ostracon

Object description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped. Sketches on two sides in black and red, damaged. On one side are two cartouches next to each other. The inscription in the right hand one is the name of Amenhotep I. On the other side are also two cartouches with the same names as in those on the recto. This sketch is of poorer quality than the one on the recto.

Mounted with metal pins on fabric.

Data elements
References (4)

Inventory number

MM 14116

Serie nummer

6504

Object

Artist's sketch; Ostracon

Object, Swedish

Ostrakon; Konstnärs-skiss

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Deir el-Medina

Geographic name, alternative

Deir el-Medina

Geographic name, alternative - Swedish

Deir el-Medina

Material

Limestone; Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten; Kalksten

Exhibitions

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

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

Acquisition

Gift from Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935.

Acquisition, Swedish

Gåva från Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935.

Description, Swedish

Ostrakon, oregelbundet formad. Skisser på båda sidorna i svart och rött, skadad. På den ena sidan finns två kartuscher bredvid varandra. Inskriptionen till höger är Amenhotep I's namn. På den andra sidan finns också två kartuscher med samma namn som i dem på framsidan. Skisserna är av lägre kvalitet än de på framsidan. Monterad med metallnålar på tyg.; Ostraka, konstnärsskiss. Två kartuscher

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 - Current

Egypten, 2014-

Description: The history of Egypt is long, from the first settlements in the Nile Valley around 7000 years ago to the present day. Egypt was for a long period of time ruled by autocratic kings – the pharaohs. At other times, it was part
of larger empires such as the Persian, Roman and Ottoman.
The pharaonic culture was characterised by high conservatism.
Things were – and should be – as they always had been.
Old traditions and ways of thinking lived on, long after the last pharaohs.
They were present in the customs and traditions of the Middle Ages and are present in Egypt today.
Welcome on a walk through the history of Egypt!
Time - Start: 20132013

Exhibition, Part of - Current

New Egypt, 5, Village life

Exhibition, showcase - Current

Egypten 5.8

Egypt, Number in Exhibition

Comments

Only the recto photographed and examined due to the mounting of the object.

Cf Publications

Page, A., Ancient Figured Egyptian Ostraca in the Petrie Collection, Warminster 1983, no. 27

Publications

Scientific American, December 1996, 104.

Peterson, B., Zeichnungen aus einer Totenstadt, MedMusB, No 7-8 (1973), 105, No 138, taf. 73

Janssen, Growing up in ancient Egypt, 87

Keller, C., Fragments of a scattered visage, 51, pl. 1-2

Loan out - Previously

2013.0002, Musee du Louvre

PhotoNegNo

1480 (glass), 1675.

Reference - Published in

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

14,5 cm

Width / Bredd

14 cm

Dimensions

L. 14.5 cm, W. 14 cm

Condition

Fragmentary

Week - Object of the week

2019-40

Original register

Egypt

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