ECL-Bm.9:71-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.9:71-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Fifteen small Egyptian objects
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
a) Nude Carytid ( Isis)
b) A figure standing with arms by side with a sun, or moon disk on its head, wearing a skirt.
c) A bird-headed figure wearing a skirt (Horus)
d) A plaque of three nude figures standing with their arms by their sides, the outer two caryatids. (Divine triads: Horus, Isis, Nephthys)
e) A standing male, wearing a skirt, carrying a vase on his head. (Atum)
f) A kneeling skirted figure with a globe on its head, holding up its arms. (Shu)
g) A scarab beetle
h) An angular bottle or a knuckle bone(?) (? seal or head-rest?)
i) A stoppered ovoid bottle (heart)
j) A strange object which includes a large eye (wd3t-eye ??)
k) A seal (?): a square pyramid with a flat top, seen from above. A hole is drilled through it. (truncated pyramid [seal])
l) A scarab beetle
m) A tall object, round in cross-section rising from a square base, punctuated at the top by four square inserts. ( dd pillar)
n) A draped figure holding an object on its head (?)
o) A small animal on a square base. (Frog)
All descriptions in brackets have been added in to the Sampson catalogue later in ink.
b) A figure standing with arms by side with a sun, or moon disk on its head, wearing a skirt.
c) A bird-headed figure wearing a skirt (Horus)
d) A plaque of three nude figures standing with their arms by their sides, the outer two caryatids. (Divine triads: Horus, Isis, Nephthys)
e) A standing male, wearing a skirt, carrying a vase on his head. (Atum)
f) A kneeling skirted figure with a globe on its head, holding up its arms. (Shu)
g) A scarab beetle
h) An angular bottle or a knuckle bone(?) (? seal or head-rest?)
i) A stoppered ovoid bottle (heart)
j) A strange object which includes a large eye (wd3t-eye ??)
k) A seal (?): a square pyramid with a flat top, seen from above. A hole is drilled through it. (truncated pyramid [seal])
l) A scarab beetle
m) A tall object, round in cross-section rising from a square base, punctuated at the top by four square inserts. ( dd pillar)
n) A draped figure holding an object on its head (?)
o) A small animal on a square base. (Frog)
All descriptions in brackets have been added in to the Sampson catalogue later in ink.
Content (object)
sculpture
Dimensions
height (actual size): 220mm
width (actual size): 167 (double)mm
width (actual size): 167 (double)mm
Inscription
1 written in ink on the front of the drawing
Materials & techniques note
ink and grey wash on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Lanciani (Bcom 1894)