Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Bronze spatula shaped palette knife. Probably collected in Upper Egypt, near Thebes. Part of a small group of objects from the William Hood collection, found at Nettleham Hall in a box after the sale of his collection at Sotheby's 11 November 1924.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Corroded with fresh corrosion?
Compare with F. G. Newton, 'Excavations at El-'Amarnah, 1923-24' in JEA X (1924), pl. XXIII [2]; Compare with Rita Freed 'Pharaohs of the Sun. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen' (Boston, 1999), p. 251 [no. 158] (UC24384, Dyn 18, Tell el Amarna).
Specifications
- Accession number
- 56.20.495
- Collection type
- Tools
- Culture
- New Kingdom
- Place made
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date made
- 1352 BC - 1336 BC
- Collector
- William Frankland Hood
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date collected
- 1851 - 1861
- Materials
- Bronze
- Measurements
- Overall: 3 mm x 45 mm x 275 mm
- Credit line
- Purchased from the collections of Norwich Castle Museum
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
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