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Petrie MSS 5.4.05
Title
Page 05
Date(s)
- 9 December 1893-21 February 1894 (Creation)
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1 page (4 photographs)
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(1853-1942)
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-Qift (Koptos; Coptos).
-Three colossal statues of Min, fragmentary, ends of girdle incised with figures of animals, etc., Predynastic, found beneath Ptolemaic pavement, one in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 30770 bis, and two in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1894/105.
Captions:
-K.13.14 Drawings
-K.19.20 Squeezes
- Sculpture on third statue of Min. Poles decorated with feathers & garlands [variant of R22/R23] (note the Egyptian flower bouquets [x]) showing the origin of the hieroglyph of the god Min.
-[← Saw fish.] [← Ostrich.]
Notes to the left of top left photograph:
-Ghizeh museum Salle 11 [R23A] on wooden coffin (not numbered) of [r:p:a-F4:a-(Hr*tp):aA-n:R23A-T:t-i] showing that the type with feathers on a pole was recognised till the VIth dyn at Akhmim.
Notes between bottom left and right photographs:
-Pteroceras shells.
Notes below bottom right photograph: - (Reversed) Khufu; found in S. town.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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Publication note
-K.19 and K.20: see Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Koptos (1896) (OEB 147092), plate III.3 (upper half).
-K.14 (lower half): Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Koptos (1896) (OEB 147092), plate IV.second from top right (reversed) [similar, but not same].
-K.20: Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], plate facing page 152 [lower] (OEB 147191).