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Clay ostracon
Jar fragment, with two sketches of a lion(-ess) on recto, a head and accounts verso; the drawings on the recto are in black ink of lion head, in red ink of roaring lion head (in black the lion's mouth is closed and in the red painted overlay it roars).
Length: 10.4 cm
Width: 13 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
New Kingdom
Circa
-1550
-
Circa
-1069
clay Ceramic
Accession number: E.GA.4289.1943
Primary reference Number: 58747
Oldadmincategory: P
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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