Probably Saqqara / relief with scribes / Limestone

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1981.04.0002
Object Name: relief with scribes
Lot: Goudsmit, Samuel
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Materials: Limestone
Weight: too heavy for scale
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Relief block from chapel wall: scribes at work. Limestone.
Subjects: Scribes
Earliest Date: 2407 BCE
Latest Date: 2260 BCE
Verbatim Date: 2407 - 2260 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Probably Saqqara
Geography: egypt
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: A Scientist Views the Past: The Samuel A. Goudsmit Collection of Egyptian Antiquities; Individual & Society in Ancient Egypt; Case 14 - Votive Context
Exhibition Curator: Root, Margaret Cool; Richards, Janet
Exhibition Year: 2009
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 190 KB
Record: 1981.04.0002
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1981.04.0002/1981_04_0002p02.tif

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