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MM 14016 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, stela, rectangular with rounded upper edges.Several mended cracks. Very faint drawing in black, a standing man on the right hand side of the piece. He is left facing, standing with legs in front of each other, dressed in a short loin cloth. A vague outline of the face and the arms can be seen. Green glazed stone, faience?

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Inventory number

MM 14016

Serie nummer

5264

Object

artist's sketch; ostracon

Object, Swedish

ostrakon; konstnärs-skiss

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Deir el Medineh

Material

Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten

Acquisition

Gift from R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1935

Time - Acquisition

1935

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Ostracon, stela, rectangular with rounded upper edges.Several mended cracks. Very faint drawing in black, a standing man on the right hand side of the piece. He is left facing, standing with legs in front of each other, dressed in a short loin cloth. A vague outline of the face and the arms can be seen. Green glazed stone, faience?

Period

New Kingdom, 19-20th Dynasty (1315-1081 BC)

Period, Swedish

19-20e dynastin (1315-1081 f Kr), Nya riket

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-1315

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-1081

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

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