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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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.

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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Pen.jpg
Pen made from reed.

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Amen Ra.jpg
Bronze figure of Amen-Ra seated, feet resting on small illegibly inscribed footstool. The throne does not belong to the statuette.

Shu.jpg
Slate relief (set in an ivory frame which is probably modern), depicting a figure of a god kneeling with upraised arms in the gesture of the god Shu, supporting, cartouches of Men-kheper-Ra (Thothmes III).

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Nephthys.jpg
Figure of Nephthys in brown glazed ware, perforated for suspension. Reid (1912): 'Nephthys was a sister of Isis and Osiris'.

Osiris.jpg
Seated figure of Osiris wearing crown and holding crook and flail of authority.

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Amulet Ded or Djed in blue glazed ware. Reid (1912): 'emblem of Osiris and appears to be a survival of a tree-cult.'

Isis holding horus.jpg
Figure of Isis holding baby Horus in bronze (imperfect), on inscribed base.

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