MM 14117
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artist's sketch, ostracon

- Object description
- Ostracon, elongated, irregularly shaped. Sketches and inscriptions on both sides. On the recto is a right facing, standing king, wearing the blue crown with an uraeus. He is dressed in a short kilt, tied at the back with long ribbons. In his right hand, he is holding a sceptre, in his left a feather. Above him is a sun disc with two uraeus. To the left are hieroglyphs, stating one of the king’s titles, underneath a cartouch with the name of Ramses IV. To the right are also an inscription and a vulture with a flagellum. On the verso is also a king, kneeling, otherwise similar to the one on the recto. Mounted with metal pins on fabric.




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