- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Reed pen.
- Long description
- Reed pen with end carved diagonally to form a tip. [MJD 19/08/2014]
- Person
- Field collector Bernard Pyne Grenfell
- Field collector Arthur Surridge Hunt
- PRM source William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- PRM source Egypt Exploration Fund
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Greco Roman
- Date collected
- By 1897
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1897
- Materials and processes
- Material Reed Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 72 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1897.49.12
- Research and responses
Belmesa is the site of Behnesa (Oxyrhynchus). Although nominally associated with Petrie, it was the papyrologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt that carried out the excavations at the site. [AS 24/10/2012]
Note that this item is mentioned in a letter from EEF making it clear it is them who gave the objects to the PRM see L1937 S&SWM PR papers [AP 04/07/2011]
- Associated publications
- Listed under 'Pitt-Rivers [sic] Museum, Oxford' on page 243 of 'Appendix 2: Pens data' in Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and Experience, by Ellen Swift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Also referred to in note 79 on page 46. [JC 3 5 2017]
1897.49.12
Reed pen.
On display
1897.49.12
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