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MM 14142 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, irregularly shaped piece, drawing/incision on one side in brownish black. It shows a bird, facing left, but with its head held over its back, i.e. facing right. The plumage is very detailed, using different strokes: straight lines for the breast, and diagonal lines on the body. It has long, thin legs, the feet are missing. Possibly a peacock? Limestone.

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Inventory number

MM 14142

Serie nummer

6344

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

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped piece, drawing/incision on one side in brownish black. It shows a bird, facing left, but with its head held over its back, i.e. facing right. The plumage is very detailed, using different strokes: straight lines for the breast, and diagonal lines on the body. It has long, thin legs, the feet are missing. Possibly a peacock? 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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