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Menat from mummy straps, stamped with cartouches of Osorkon I and floral motif, coloured pink
Height: 8.1 cm
Length: 3.2 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: Given (1896)
Twenty-second Dynasty
Third Intermediate period
Reign of Osorkon I
-0945
BC
-
-0715
BC
Accession number: E.97.1896
Primary reference Number: 49507
Oldadmincategory: Misc
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 (2023) "Menat" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49507 Accessed: 2023-06-01 00:14:54
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|title=Menat
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-01 00:14:54|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-49507
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Accession Number: E.GA.3733.1943
Accession Number: E.GA.54.1949
Accession Number: E.96.1896
Accession Number: E.GA.312.1947
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