Egypt
- Daily Photo - Limestone Hippo
UC16480 Painted limestone hippopotamus, trace of red paint and black lines. Waxed, in v. salt condition, one side badly damaged Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE) Found at - Harageh Measurements - length 15.7 cms height 10 cms Copyright: Petrie...
- Daily Photo - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - Bull's Head Offering Tray From Rifeh
Fragment of Nile silt pottery offering tray with bull's head and conical loaf. Bull has white dots for eyes. Buff coloured fabric with red slip layer. Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE) Found at - Rifeh Measurements - height 3.7 cms length...
- Daily Photo - Cylinder Seal
UC11174 Cylinder seal faience green on white designed of linked scrolls and lotus leaves. Period - Late Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-1850BCE) Found at - Lahun Measurements - length 2.2 cms width .5 cms Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University...
- Daily(ish) Photo - 12th Dynasty Hippo Ivory Baton
UC35309. Fragment of curved, incised, prophylactic baton made of hippopotamus ivory. Right edge worn for 1 cm, into design of incised leopard head. Possible hieroglyph for 'house' (pr) above an indistinct sign, possibly nfr or the eye with elongated...
Egypt
Daily Photo - String of carnelian beads
UC38914
String of beads: 30 carnelian spheroids; 4 carnelian rings; 2 carnelian wd3t; 1 carnelian pendant. Found with UC. 38915-UC.38921.
Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE)
Found at - Rifeh
Measurements - pendant width 0.5 cms pendant length 1.1 cms string length 14.0 cms
Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE)
Found at - Rifeh
Measurements - pendant width 0.5 cms pendant length 1.1 cms string length 14.0 cms
Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
University College London
With my thanks
- Daily Photo - Limestone Hippo
UC16480 Painted limestone hippopotamus, trace of red paint and black lines. Waxed, in v. salt condition, one side badly damaged Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE) Found at - Harageh Measurements - length 15.7 cms height 10 cms Copyright: Petrie...
- Daily Photo - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - Bull's Head Offering Tray From Rifeh
Fragment of Nile silt pottery offering tray with bull's head and conical loaf. Bull has white dots for eyes. Buff coloured fabric with red slip layer. Period - Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-2024BCE) Found at - Rifeh Measurements - height 3.7 cms length...
- Daily Photo - Cylinder Seal
UC11174 Cylinder seal faience green on white designed of linked scrolls and lotus leaves. Period - Late Middle Kingdom (1700BCE-1850BCE) Found at - Lahun Measurements - length 2.2 cms width .5 cms Copyright: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University...
- Daily(ish) Photo - 12th Dynasty Hippo Ivory Baton
UC35309. Fragment of curved, incised, prophylactic baton made of hippopotamus ivory. Right edge worn for 1 cm, into design of incised leopard head. Possible hieroglyph for 'house' (pr) above an indistinct sign, possibly nfr or the eye with elongated...