Simpulum

Description

Ladle or simpulum in bronze with a semi-ovoid bowl and long straight grooved handle bent over at the end and terminating in a duck-bill: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, said to be Abydos, Late Period

Museum reference

A.1909.606

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Simpulum, Ladle

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

664 - 332 BC

Style / Culture

Late Dynastic Period, Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Kom el-Sultan, Abydos, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa EGYPT

Exhibitions

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

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