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Clay vessel fragment
Fragment of body of jar, with applied decoration showing the head of the goddess Hathor and painted in blue, black and red
Height: 15.5 cm
Length: 14.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1943)
by
Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Eighteenth Dynasty
Amarna period
New Kingdom
Circa
-1352
-
Circa
1336
-1336
Accession number: E.GA.6185.1943
Primary reference Number: 59798
Oldadmincategory: P
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 (2020) "Jar"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/59798 Accessed: 2021-10-28 11:12:18
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Accession Number: E.19.1971
Accession Number: E.182.1912
Accession Number: E.GA.5999.1943
Accession Number: GR.287.1907
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