Mould

Pottery mould decorated with an image of a small wedjat (eye of Horus). For making faience amulets and beads. Friable surface in places. From the British School of Archaeology in Egypt 1909-110 excavations at Memphis directed by Sir Flinders Petrie. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Surface loss, friable, surface dirt. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum registration no. 77/1956. Purchased from Mrs Bushe-Fox, widow of Mr Bushe-Fox who was with Sir Flinders Petrie in 1909 and 1911. Joscelyn Plunkett Bushe-Fox (1880-1954) a British archaeologist and from 1920 Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments. In his early years worked as an artist for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (1909-1911). He acquired a small range of archaeological finds from this time, at sites including Gezeh and Memphis. Following his death his wife, Cicely, sold his collection of antiquities to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in December 1955.