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Limestone ostracon.
Showing a jackal wearing a robe and carrying a sceptre. Below is a captive calf. This illustration has previously been described as a fox, in a chariot, drawn by a goat.
Length: 12 cm
Width: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
New Kingdom
Circa
-1550
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Circa
-1069
Accession number: E.GA.4291.1943
Primary reference Number: 58749
Oldadmincategory: SS
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Limestone ostracon." Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/58749 Accessed: 2024-12-27 20:43:28
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