- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Inlaid rosette (8-petalled) in grey and white faience. Raised faience stamen in yellow in the centre of the rosette. Reverse is plain. [JP 16/9/2003]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Greco Roman, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?By 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Faience Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 50 mm, Height: max 8 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.63.77.1 PR no.: 198/ 8386 199/ 8386 200/ 8386
- Research and responses
Sir William Flinders Petrie excavated in Egypt (and later in Palestine) from the 1880s until his death in 1942. He met Pitt Rivers in Egypt in 1881 see Bowden, 1991: 93. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
The date suggested by the green book of 1878 seems at odds with the start date for Petrie's Egyptian digs. [AP 2/3/2004]
Tell el Yahudiyeh is located in the eastern Nile Delta [RTS 24/6/2004].
Petrie did not excavate at this site prior to 1884 and he did not himself travel to Egypt until 1880. It is possible that he acquired this from someone else as the site of Yehudiyeh is noted on p.5 of Naville's 1890 The Mound of the Jew and the city of Onias to have been visited by several other explorers including Mr Greville Chester (who was certainly later acquainted with Petrie), Prof. Hayter Lewis and Brugsch who all directed the attention of travellers to that location. Naville notes that "The excavations [in 1870] made by Brugsch Bey brought to light the remains of a chamber lined with enamelled tiles of Ramesses III, fragments of which are scattered throughout various museums of Egypt and Europe". [AS 23/07/2012]
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