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Faience bird rattle from G 1171 (found in sand) (scale 1:1): Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 37733 = CG 69716
Faience bird rattle from G 1171 (found in sand) (scale 1:2): Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 37733 = CG 69716
Faience bird rattle from G 1171 (found in sand) (scale 1:2): Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 37733 = CG 69716
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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1171
Green faince rattle in shape of bird without feet or wings, with lines of black paint. A clapper of an unknown material inside produces the characteristic rattle noise.
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- ID
- EMC_JE_37733
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Musical instruments
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- Findspot
- G 1171
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- Material
- Green faience
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- Dimensions
- 8.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Catalogue General number
- EMC_CG_69716
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_2/12412
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, 1904-1905
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- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Andrew Reisner; RELATED SITE(S): G 1171; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_VII_SP111LR; EMC_CG_069201-069852_073lr; MFAB_C11960_OS; MFAB_C11961_OS; MFAB_C11962_OS; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_CG_69716
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Hickmann, Hans. Catalogue general des antiquites egyptiennes du Musee du Caire. Nos. 69201-69852. Instruments de musicque. 1949. 72.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Object owned by
