Bowl

Description

Blue anhydrite bowl decorated on the underside and round the sides with four baboons, their intertwined tails forming the supporting ring-base: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, Middle Kingdom to 2nd Intermediate Period, 13th - 17th Dynasty, 1731 - 1545 BC

Museum reference

A.1909.527.33

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Bowl

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Anhydrite

Collection place(s)

Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Treasured: Wonderful Things, Amazing Stories (14 Nov 2008 - 01 Jan 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Daughter of Re Hatshepsut King of Egypt (15 Oct 2005 - 10 Dec 2006)
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Kimbell Art Museum

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Qurneh / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, B.S.A.E. & B. Quaritch, 1909, 6 - 10

Roehrig, C.H., Dreyfus, R., Keller, C.A., (eds.) Hatshepsut : From Queen to Pharaoh, 2005 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art), p.20, cat.4

On display

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