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MM 14134 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, irregularly shaped, damaged sketch on one side in black, red and yellow. The upper part of a cobra is visible, facing right towards an offering table ( hardly visible). The snake has its head lifted and is wearing a collar and a feathered crown with a sun disc. The upper part of a plant, outlined in black, is next to the offering table together with a large lotus flower, yellow with red stem. Four vertical lines of a hieroglyphic inscription, the different columns separated by thick red lines. The inscription (in black) reads: “Meretseger, Ruler of the West, Ruler of the Heaven, Ruler of the Gods”. Limestone.

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Inventory number

MM 14134

Serie nummer

6326

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, irregularly shaped, damaged sketch on one side in black, red and yellow. The upper part of a cobra is visible, facing right towards an offering table ( hardly visible). The snake has its head lifted and is wearing a collar and a feathered crown with a sun disc. The upper part of a plant, outlined in black, is next to the offering table together with a large lotus flower, yellow with red stem. Four vertical lines of a hieroglyphic inscription, the different columns separated by thick red lines. The inscription (in black) reads: “Meretseger, Ruler of the West, Ruler of the Heaven, Ruler of the Gods”. Limestone.

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

Comments

Former museum no. E 4134.

Cf Publications

Page, A., Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca in the Petrie Collection, Warminster 1983, nr 20.

Vandier d’Abbadie, J., Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Médineh (Nos. 2734 à 3053). Documents de fouilles publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 2:4,1959, no 3013.

Mekhitarian, A., Review of E. Brunner-Traut, Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder (Bildostraka) der Deutschen Museen und Sammlungen, Wiesbaden 1956, in Chronique d’Égypte 1957, Turin nos. 111 & 127.

Brunner-Traut, E., Die altägyptischen Scherbenbilder (Bildostraka) der Deutschen Museen und Sammlungen, Wiesbaden 1956, 87.

Werbrouck, M., “Ostraca à figures. Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire”, Bulletin, Sér.4, Année 25, Brussels 1953, 105, no E 6573.

Vandier d’Abbadie, J.,Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Médineh. Documents de fouilles publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archélogie orientale du Caire, 2:3, Cairo 1946, no 2731.

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