File NEWB4/49 - The sistrum

2 cm, 1 folder

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'.