Identity area
Reference code
NEWB4/49
Title
Date(s)
- 1930s Approximate date based on correspondence (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 cm, 1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Folder titled 'Sistra' containing notes, correspondence, tracings, drawings and cuttings relating to the sistrum.
Includes:
-Copy of inscriptions on block statue of Espekashuti (Cairo Museum, CG 42232) found in the Karnak Cachette (TopBib ii.149)
-Letter from Ernest Thomas, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, relating to the interpretation of a monogram in Beni Hasan III, 5 April 1932
-Extract from a letter from Major MacPherson, Cairo, to E. E. Evans-Pritchard relating to the sistrum, 26 November 1935
-Letter to Charles Seligman relating to the sistrum with tracing, 22 September 1934
-Response from Charles Seligman to the letter above relating to the sistrum, 25th September 1934
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 3'.