Egypt
- Daily Photo - Hair Curler In Form Of Horse
Bronze hair curler in form of galloping horse with plumes on its head. Dotted saddle-cloth and patterned collar also indicated, also full mane and tail with signs of bridle on head. Period - Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE) Measurements - height cms length...
- Daily Photo - Bronze Sistrum With Cat
UC30382 Bronze sistrum with turned handle and four sounding bars bent over the ends. On curved top is seated cat with head turned to left. For a child?. Period - Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE) Measurements - height 14.35 cms length 7 cms width cms diameter...
- Daily Photo - Inscribed Limestone Stela
UC10712 Limestone stela inscription filled with blue and lines with red. The 28th year of Amenemhat, son of the sun, living for ever, the department or the general Tekhu Mentuhotep. 32 cubits. Period - Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE) Found at - ? Measurements...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Ivory Wand Fragment From Petrie
UC16384. Fragment of ivory (hippopotamus) magic wand, incised from R-L with frog on basket (HEQT), TA-URT with knife, two human heads and crocodile. 10.6cms. Possibly Eighteenth Dynasty. Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Bronze vase from the Petrie collection
UC16428. Bronze vase of piriform shape with long neck and flared rim, with incised hieroglyphic inscription 'for the washer of the sandals of Amen, Dhutihotep', between horizontal lines. 22.5cm. Eighteenth Dynasty
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London
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- Daily Photo - Hair Curler In Form Of Horse
Bronze hair curler in form of galloping horse with plumes on its head. Dotted saddle-cloth and patterned collar also indicated, also full mane and tail with signs of bridle on head. Period - Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE) Measurements - height cms length...
- Daily Photo - Bronze Sistrum With Cat
UC30382 Bronze sistrum with turned handle and four sounding bars bent over the ends. On curved top is seated cat with head turned to left. For a child?. Period - Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE) Measurements - height 14.35 cms length 7 cms width cms diameter...
- Daily Photo - Inscribed Limestone Stela
UC10712 Limestone stela inscription filled with blue and lines with red. The 28th year of Amenemhat, son of the sun, living for ever, the department or the general Tekhu Mentuhotep. 32 cubits. Period - Dynasty 12 (1795BCE-1985BCE) Found at - ? Measurements...
- Daily Photo - Mycenean Vase At Gurob
UC16631. Mycenean IIIB1 stirrup vase of pottery, cream with broad black and thin brown circular line decoration - piece of spout missing. Black patch from burning. Late Dynasty 18 (1295BCE-1550BCE). Found at Gurob. Height 8.6 cms max diameter 11.1 cms....
- Daily Photo - Ivory Wand Fragment From Petrie
UC16384. Fragment of ivory (hippopotamus) magic wand, incised from R-L with frog on basket (HEQT), TA-URT with knife, two human heads and crocodile. 10.6cms. Possibly Eighteenth Dynasty. Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University...