ostracon

MM 14137 :: Artist's sketch, Ostracon

Object description

Ostracon, irregularly shaped. Sketch on one side in black and red, smudged. Fragment of a larger piece. It shows a seated woman, facing left. She is sitting on a bed, beside lies an infant, both of them coloured red. The woman is wearing a black wig with headband and a white and red ointment cone on top of it. In her right, outstretched hand is a white coloured bread, surrounded by ornamental leaves, coloured red. Mounted with metal pins on fabric

 

Deir el Medina

 

 

Period

19-20th Dynasty (1315-1081 BC), New Kingdom

 

 

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