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MM 14047 :: Artist's sketch, Ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, irregularly shaped. Sketch on one side in black and red, damaged. It shows a monkey, standing on the left, playing the harp to a mouse, sitting on the right and facing the monkey. The monkey is facing right, outlined in red and then coloured in black, with some parts of the fur highlighted through a darker colouring. Face, behind and feet are all coloured red. The harp is black, with red strings. Mounted with metal pins on fabric.

Data elements
References (7)

Inventory number

MM 14047

Serie nummer

6526

Object

Artist's sketch; Ostracon

Object, Swedish

Ostrakon; Konstnärs-skiss; Ostraka

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

Acquisition

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

Acquisition, Swedish

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

Description, Swedish

Ostrakon, oregelbundet formad. Skiss på ena sidan i svart och rött, skadad. Den visar en apa som står till vänster och spelar på en harpa inför en mus som sitter till höger och är vänd mot apan. Apan är vänd åt höger och konturerad i rött, sedan färglagd i svart med några delar av pälsen framhävd med mörkare färg. Ansikte, bakdel och fötter är alla röda. Harpan är svart med röda strängar. Monterad med metallpinnar på tyg.; Konstnärsskiss, ostraka.; Ostraka. 1300-1100 f.Kr.; Ostraka. 1300-1100 f.Kr. Apa spelar harpa för en mus.

Description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped. Sketch on one side in black and red, damaged. It shows a monkey, standing on the left, playing the harp to a mouse, sitting on the right and facing the monkey. The monkey is facing right, outlined in red and then coloured in black, with some parts of the fur highlighted through a darker colouring. Face, behind and feet are all coloured red. The harp is black, with red strings. 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

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

Egypt, Number in Exhibition

Cf Publications

Ancient Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum, 1989, no 62

Brunner-Traut, E., Altägyptische Tiergeschichte und Fabel, Gestalt und Strahlkraft, Darmstadt 1968, 8 (3 g), 9 f (5 b)

5000 år av Egyptisk konst, 1961, no 124

Brunner-Traut, E., Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder (Bildostraka) der Deutschen Museen und Sammlungen, Wiesbaden 1956, no 95.

Werbrouck, M., “Ostraca à figures. Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire”, Bulletin, Sér.4, Année 25, Brussels 1953, 110, no E 6442.

Vandier d’Abbadie, J., Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Medineh (Nos. 2256 à 2722). Documents de fouilles publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 2:2, Cairo 1937, no 2309.

Werbrouck, M., Ostraca à figures. Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Bruxelles, Bulletin, Sér. 3, Année 6, Brussels 1934, 139, no.E 6727.

Publications

Manniche, L., Ancient Egyptian Musical Instruments, Münchener Ägyptologische Studien Heft 34, München 1975, 57, note 227

Peterson, B., Zeichnungen aus einer Totenstadt, MedMusB, No 7-8 (1973), 101, No 127, taf. 66

Loan out - Previously

2013.0002, Musee du Louvre

PhotoNegNo

1426 (glass), 1765.

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

Medelhavsmuseet Föremål i urval

Source - http: libris.kb.se

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

13,1 cm

Width / Bredd

9 cm

Dimensions

L. 13.1 cm, W. 9 cm

Condition

Fragmentary

Original register

Egypt

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