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MM 19915 :: amulet [?], fish, sculpture

Object description: An amulet in the shape of a fish. Highly stylized. At hole at bottom of the abdomen of the fish, not drilled through. Broken at tail. Similar to the fish on standard symbolizing the 16Th nome of Lower Egypt, HAt-mHyt.

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Inventory number

MM 19915

Serie nummer

12348

Previous ID

D94

Object

amulet [?]; fish; sculpture

Object, Swedish

skulptur; amulett [?]; fisk

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Faiyum

Material

Fossilized bone [?]

Material, Swedish

Fossiliserat ben [?]

Acquisition

From the R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection, G-A D97.

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

An amulet in the shape of a fish. Highly stylized. At hole at bottom of the abdomen of the fish, not drilled through. Broken at tail. Similar to the fish on standard symbolizing the 16Th nome of Lower Egypt, HAt-mHyt.

Period

Predynastic Period (5500-c.3050 BC) [?]

Period, Swedish

Fördynastisk tid (5500-ca.3050 f Kr) [?]

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

-5500

Time - Manufacturing, latest

-3050

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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