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Faience vessel: E.88.1937

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Current Location: Gallery 20

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Faience vessel

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Description

Woman, kneeling, holding bowl. The vessel is shaped like a woman making bread, she wears an archaizing 'Hathor' wig, a type popular in the Middle Kingdom.

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Length: 8 cm

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Dating

26th Dynasty
Circa -0664 - Circa -0525

Materials used in production

Faïence

Techniques used in production

Moulded

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.88.1937
Primary reference Number: 53641
Oldadmincategory: FG
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 10 June 2022 Last processed: Tuesday 12 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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