IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 58783 accession number: E.GA.4324a.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 25 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: stonemason at work, on one side, uraeus and inscription on other side. The stone mason is a stubbled man with a chisel in hand. He has his head thrown back and appears to be singing. On the reverse the scribe Imyshe, son of Nebnufer, offers to the snake goddess Meretseger. object type: Limestone ostracon featuring a depiction of a stone mason at work, and a representation of Meretseger with an line of written offering beneath it. A sign that the ostracon was originally larger can be seen on the 'reverse' where the raised arm and a leg of the devotee (the scribe Imyshe), is partially represented on the right edge of the stone. title: ostracon, figured LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities creditline: given by Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Pasha, and Colonel Thomas Gayer Gayer-Anderson, 1943 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/58783 TECHNIQUES ---------- painted CATEGORIES ------ category: written document DATING ------ creation date: 1295 - 1186 creation date earliest: 1295 creation date latest: 1186 culture: New Kingdom culture: 19th Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 2.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Made in Ancient Egypt title: Africa: The Art of a Continent title: Pierres Egyptiennes...Chefs d'oeuvre pour l'Eternite CITATIONS -------- Drawings From Ancient Egypt Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Egyptian Art [1995] Egyptian artists' sketches; figured Oskraka from the Gayer-Anderson Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Egyptian Painting Life in Ancient Egypt Pharaoh's Workers Kunstgeschichte, 15, Das alte Aegypten Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant20/E_GA_4324a_1943_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 668 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant20/mid_E_GA_4324a_1943_281_29.jpg height: 569 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant20/E_GA_4324a_1943_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 668 pixels surrogate: preview format: 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