Ivory fragment of a musical instrument
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
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_38972; JE_38972; EMC_CG_69246; CG_69246; EMC_SR_2/3600; SR_2/3600
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Musical instruments
- Period
- Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1
- Title
- Ivory fragment of a musical instrument
- Medium
- Ivory
- Dimensions
- 7 x 3 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Giza, Kafr al-Batran (Nezlet Batran), Grave 23
- 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.
- 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