Round wooden pot for kohl with several compartments.

Collection type: Object
Description: Round wooden pot for kohl with several compartments.
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; Thebes
Person: Field collector Hood; PRM source Grace Mary Crowfoot
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1580-1350 BC
Date collected: By 1943
Acquisition information: Donated: 12/1943
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Height 83 mm, Diameter: max 70 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1943.12.125
Research and responses: Please note that the Hood Collection in question is likely that of Rev. William Frankland Hood (d.1864), collector of Antiquities including the 'Hood papyrus'. Grace Mary Crowfoot is the daughter of Sinclair Frankland Hood, who seems to have been in some way related to Rev. Hood though the nature of their connection is unclear. The details of the above were located on the Donor Index card for Dorothy Agnes Hood, in the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum [L.Ph 24/3/2004]
Associated publications: Presumably the following item listed under 'Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford' in the 'Catalogue of Museum Collections' in Boxes, Chests and Footstools, Volume II of Ancient Egyptian Furniture by Geoffrey Killen (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1994): '1942.12.125 / Kohl pot / Wood / 18th Dyn Thebes' (see photocopy in RDF: Researchers: Killen). [JC 9 2 2005]

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