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  • Collection: Collecting the world

ostrakon.jpg
Ostrakon with complete hieratic inscription, records payments made in kind by 'workman Amenemopet' to the 'artificer Kenna' for work done.

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writing set.jpg
Writing set/palette complete with four pens. The wooden tablet is recessed to hold the pens and has five holes containing the original colours white, brown, black, green. The pens are of wood with small brass nibs.

scribe.jpg
Part of a statuette of a scribe, holding a palette (imperfect - head, shoulders and one arm with hand).

granary model.jpg
Model of a granary in wood, painted, with figures of scribes and workmen. From a tomb at Beni Hasan

papyrus.jpg
Fragment of papyrus, with hieratic writing. Mounted, framed and glazed. Old number: PMAM 27.

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papyrus84023.jpg
Funereal, shows pictures of the Book of the Dead, Judgement scene before Osiris and weighing the heart. Mounted, framed and glazed. Inscription: PMAM 24 vi.

scribe statue.jpg
Limestone statuette of a scribe, with traces of red and black colouring in the limestone. Repaired with Plaster of Paris. Incised inscription. Reid's 1912 Catalogue: 'Fine work and characteristic of the IVth and Vth dynasties.'

relief fragment.jpg
On one side of the fragment is a head of type of time of Sety I (19 dynasty) showing Syrian influence, on the other side is portion of figure, perhaps of 12 dynasty. Fine example, probably from Karnak.

mallet.jpg
Wooden mallet, given by an Arab to Rev. Professor John Forbes, on a visit to the valley of the Tombs of the Kings, near Thebes in 1839.

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