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MM 19260 :: sculpture

Object description: Animal figurine, hedgehog. Well modelled head with ears and eyes clearly visible. Small protruding knobs as spikes. Slightly rounded stomach with legs placed at each corner.

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Inventory number

MM 19260

Serie nummer

10688

Object

sculpture

Object, Swedish

skulptur

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Exhibition, Part of - Current

Study Gallery - Showcase 14:05.

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Material

Clay, brownish red; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Lera, brun-röd

Acquisition

From the R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection [?]

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Animal figurine, hedgehog. Well modelled head with ears and eyes clearly visible. Small protruding knobs as spikes. Slightly rounded stomach with legs placed at each corner.

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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