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Ivory fragment of a musical instrument in the shape of a gazelle head, broken under the neck of the head of the animal, decorated with some kind of collar.

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_38972
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Musical instruments
  • Findspot
    Giza, Kafr al-Batran (Nezlet Batran), Grave 23
  • Material
    Ivory
  • Dimensions
    7 x 3 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Catalogue General number
    EMC_CG_69246
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/3600
  • Period
    Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1
  • Excavator
    Sir William Flinders Petrie, British, 1853–1942
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    Probably bent. Found by Petrie, 1907. Both CG and JE list provenance as "tomb of Djet", but see Petrie, Giza and Rifeh, p. 3, describing the tombs at Nezlet Batran as "contemporary" with that of Djet at Abydos.
  • Remarks
    RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_VII_Sp177LR; EMC_CG_069201-069852_023lr; EMC_CG_069201-069852_PL011lr; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Sir William Flinders Petrie; RELATED SITE(S): Nezlet Batran; ALTERNATE NUMBERS: EMC_CG_69246

Full Bibliography

  • Hickmann, Hans. Catalogue general des antiquites egyptiennes du Musee du Caire. Nos. 69201-69852. Instruments de musicque. 1949. 22. ; Petrie, Flinders. Gizeh and Rifeh, p. 5, pl. IV, V.

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