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MM 11123 :: jar

Object description: A vessel with an ovoid body, modelled rim, tapering to a flat base and two tubular string-hole handles. Buff surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. The rim features four bands of four, five, six respectively seven vertical lines. On top of each handle are three horizontal wavy lines. The two main surfaces feature a ship. Both are propelled by multiple oars, each have two cabins, a double branch at the prow and a standard, of which one has horns, the other one has three hills. Below and by the foot are three aloe plants, followed below by a few S-signs. The base has a lattice pattern, circumscribed by a line.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

MM 11123

Serie nummer

6656

Previous ID

E1123, G-A23, Gayer-Anderson Coll.

Object

jar

Object, Swedish

kärl

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Idfu

Geographic name, alternative

Edfu

Geographic name, alternative - Swedish

Edfu

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchase 3.9.1934 from Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson, Cairo

Acquisition, Swedish

Inköp 3.9.1934 från Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson, Kairo

Description, Swedish

Ett kärl med en oval kropp, modellerad kant, avsmalnande mot en platt botten och två tubformade snörhålshandtag. Enformig yta med en yttre dekoration i mörkrött. Kanten har fyra band av fyra, fem, sex respektive sju våglinjer. De två huvudsakliga ytorna framställer ett skepp. Båda är propellerade av flera åror, vardera har två kabiner, en dubbel gren i bogen och ett standar av vilket ett har horn, det andra har tre kullar. Under och bredvid foten finns tre aloe-plantor, följda under några S-tecken. Botten har ett gittermönster, omcirklat av en linje.

Description

A vessel with an ovoid body, modelled rim, tapering to a flat base and two tubular string-hole handles. Buff surface with an exterior decoration in maroon. The rim features four bands of four, five, six respectively seven vertical lines. On top of each handle are three horizontal wavy lines. The two main surfaces feature a ship. Both are propelled by multiple oars, each have two cabins, a double branch at the prow and a standard, of which one has horns, the other one has three hills. Below and by the foot are three aloe plants, followed below by a few S-signs. The base has a lattice pattern, circumscribed by a line.

Period

Naqada II (3500-3150 BC), Predynastic Period

Period, Swedish

Naqada II (3500-3150 f Kr), Fördynastisk tid

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-3500

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-3150

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

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 2, showcase 02:11

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition, Egyptian galleries, Medelhavsmuseet

Comments

Äldre bild Anders Ljungkvist

Keyword

ceramics

NegNo

MM 11123(1).jpg

Cf Publications

The shape and the composition of the decoration is close to: Brunton, G. and Caton-Thomson, G., The Badarian Civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari, BSAE, (London 1928), pl.XL 43d and 43 d2, although they have different branches on the prow and different standards.

On the branches, please see, Petrie, W.M.F., Prehistoric Egypt, BSAE, (London, 1920), 19 ¨Double branch before 46-50¨. On the standards, ibid. pl. XXIII no.19 and 5-6. On the aloe plant: Keimer, L., “Sur un certain nombre d’ostraca figurés, de plaquettes sculptées, etc., provenant de la nécropole thébaine et encore inédits”. Études d’égyptologie 3, Cairo 1941,

Wångstedt, S.V., Egyptiskt konsthantverk, Vår Konst 4 (Stockholm, 1962), p.3

Publications

George, B., Frühe Keramik aus Ägypten, MedMusB, No. 10, (1975), p.89, no.147

Wångstedt, Egyptiskt konsthantverk, 1960

PhotoNegNo

Dig. neg. MM11123a Museum neg.3430-34333

MM 11123(2).jpg

Reference - Published in

George, Beate (1975) "Frühe Keramik aus Ägypten" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 10 (1975).

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

Height / Höjd

9,3 cm

Diameter

3,3 cm; 6,8 cm

Dimensions

H. 9.3 cm, Max Ø 6.8 cm, Base Ø 3.3 cm

Condition

Complete, but for minor damage to rim and one handle.

Original register

Egypt

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