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MM 14140 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, one even edge, the remaining three are damaged and uneven. Sketches on two sides, in black, damaged through salt encrustation. One one side is an inscription in Hieratic in at least four parallel vertical columns. Very faint traces of a sketch. On the reverse side are two human heads, one drawn with thick lines, the other with much thinner strokes. The upper one is possibly a royal head, wearing the blue crown. Limestone.

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Inventory number

MM 14140

Serie nummer

6338

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, one even edge, the remaining three are damaged and uneven. Sketches on two sides, in black, damaged through salt encrustation. One one side is an inscription in Hieratic in at least four parallel vertical columns. Very faint traces of a sketch. On the reverse side are two human heads, one drawn with thick lines, the other with much thinner strokes. The upper one is possibly a royal head, wearing the blue crown. 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

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