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1902.31.23.5

Wooden harness peg with short leather thong attached. [SM (Verve) 9/6/2016]

1902.31.23.5

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden harness peg with short leather thong attached. [SM (Verve) 9/6/2016]
Long description
Wooden harness peg with a hole drilled through it and a fragment of leather thong attached through it. The leather thong has a hole through it. The other end is threaded through it. [SM (Verve) 9/6/2016]
Geographical reference
Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Fayum [Al-Fayyum]
Date / Period
Date made: 332 BC - AD 395 Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Greco Roman
Date collected
1901-2
Acquisition information
Donated: 1902
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Drilled
Dimensions
Height: max 41 mm, Length: max 107 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1902.31.23.5
Research and responses

In the season 1901-1902 Flinders Petrie was working at Abydos in Upper Egypt, but his colleagues Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur Hunt were working in the Fayum for the Egypt Exploration Fund, where they excavated several cemeteries. Their primary interest was in Greek and Roman papyri and so other artefact types went largely unrecorded. For their account of the season's work, see ‘B.—Graeco-Roman Branch. Excavations in the Fayûm and at El Hîbeh’, by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, in F. L. Griffith (ed.), Archaeological Report, 1901–1902: Comprising the Work of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Progress of Egyptology During the Year, 1901–1902 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund [1902]), pp. 2–5. (Photocopy in RDF.) [AS 09/07/2012; JC 22 7 2016]

The Greco-Roman period was 332 BC - 395 AD according to Shaw, I and Nicholson, P (1997) "British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt" [SM (Verve) 13/10/2016]

Search terms: Animal Gear, Death, Cordage, Religion, Animal Harness, Grave Good