ostraca

Museum number

EA8508

Description

Full: Front
Limestone ostracon: on one side only, a scene painted in red and black depicting the workman Pennub adoring the goddess Meresger in the shape of a woman-headed snake. There is a hieroglyphic text above, perhaps a votive offering.
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Petrie Museum, UCL UC33200
Fighting bulls
New Kingdom, 1550-1350 BC
Limestone
Black pigment
Drawing of two bulls facing each other. Their heads are down and their horns are interlocked. The ground is indicated by a line. Above the bull on the right side, there is a man facing left, striding out, his right arm raised. He wears a short kilt. His head is missing.
Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 16 cm

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Figured ostrakon
Petrie Museum, London UC33199
Bull-god?
Limestone
Black ink
The bull is standing and facing right. There is a sun-disk between his horns. The disk is drawn frontally. Smudged beneath the body. The drawing is very crude and it is difficult to establish which bull-god is represented here.
Height: 11.3 cm
Width: 14.4 cm

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Figured ostrakon Petrie Museum, London UC26937
Galloping horse
New Kingdom, dynasty 18th until dynasty 19th, 1550-1186 BC
Terracotta
Red and black pigment
Figure of a galloping horse, facing left. The horse is painted with red pigment. The legs of the animal are missing. Behind the horse there is a drawing in black of part of a chariot and reins that lead the horse.
Height: 10.7 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

To find out more about the ostraka collection from Deir el-Medina, go to www.st-maat.org and follow the link to Museum & private collections
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Deir el Medina ostraca - Sketches on two sides. On one side are several animals, in the top right hand corner a vulture, below it a monkey walking on all four legs towards the left. Underneath the monkey is a lion, lying down and facing right. Underneath the lion is a Seth-animal. In the upper left hand corner is a young bird, facing right, and underneath that another monkey, walking on all four legs towards the right. From Deir el Medina, New Kingdom, 19th-20th dynasty.

(MM 14052, MM 14136, MM 14096)

Medellhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Heidi K.
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