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MM 15382 :: artist's sketch, ostracon

Object description: Ostracon, rectangular, damaged sketch on one side in black and red, on the other in black. The main sketch shows four human heads, outlined initially in black, then in red. One of the is royal, wearing a crown and a uraeus. The heads to the left are very faint and hardly visible. Beneath them is a hand. On the other side is a very faint and smudged sketch in black. Limestone.

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Inventory number

MM 15382

Serie nummer

6355

Object

artist's sketch; ostracon

Object, Swedish

ostrakon; konstnärs-skiss

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Deir el Medineh

Material

Limestone; Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten; Kalksten

Acquisition

From the R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Ostracon, rectangular, damaged sketch on one side in black and red, on the other in black. The main sketch shows four human heads, outlined initially in black, then in red. One of the is royal, wearing a crown and a uraeus. The heads to the left are very faint and hardly visible. Beneath them is a hand. On the other side is a very faint and smudged sketch in black. 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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