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MM 11163 :: Palette, Toilette object

Object description: Boat shaped palette with one end turned up and a hole drilled through. One small raise on the middle of the ridge which terminates with a drilled hole which now is damaged. The other end of the palette has a small raise.

Data elements
References (5)

Inventory number

MM 11163

Old numbers

E1163

Object

Palette; Toilette object

Object, Swedish

Palett; Toalettartikel

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Material

Schist; Stone

Material, Swedish

Skiffer; Bergart; Sten; Glimmerskiffer

Acquisition

From the R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Boat shaped palette with one end turned up and a hole drilled through. One small raise on the middle of the ridge which terminates with a drilled hole which now is damaged. The other end of the palette has a small raise.

Condition

Fragmentary

Period

Predynastic Period (5500-c.3050 BC)

Period, Swedish

Fördynastisk tid (5500-ca.3050 f Kr)

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

Name - Photographer