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MM 11086 :: pottery vessel, polished red, pottery vessel

Object description: An open bowl with convex profile, a wide, round mouth, rounded rim and a pointed base. Brown ware, smoothed.

Inventory number

MM 11086

Serie nummer

5399

Previous ID

E1086

Object

pottery vessel, polished red; pottery vessel

Object, Swedish

kärl; keramikkärl, rödpolerat

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Aswan

Material

Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Lera; Keramik

Acquisition

Purchased from R.G. Gayer-Anderson 1934

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

An open bowl with convex profile, a wide, round mouth, rounded rim and a pointed base. Brown ware, smoothed.

Period

Badari (5500-4000 BC), Predynastic Period

Period, Swedish

Badari (5500-4000 f Kr), Fördynastisk tid

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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