- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rubbing stone, reddish rectangular stone with rounded corners and flat surfaces. [El.B 09/11/2007]
- Person
- Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- PRM source Egypt Exploration Fund
- PRM source President of the Egypt Exploration Fund
- PRM source Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1905
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1905
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Length: max 140 mm, Width: max 85 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1905.47.10
- Research and responses
See RDF for a copy of the letter dated 16.11.1905 sent to the Egypt Exploration Fund Committee by Balfour enquiring as to what the markings on these objects mean. The original is held in the archives of the Egypt Exploration Society [AS 12/09/2012]
- Associated publications
- Petrie, W.M.F. 1906. W. M. F. Researches in Sinai (London). [AS 06/08/2010]
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