Pottery headrest [SM (Verve) 03/02/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery headrest [SM (Verve) 03/02/2014]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; 30 miles south of Asyut Qau el Kebir
Person: Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie; Field collector British School of Archaeology in Egypt; PRM source British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 2613-2160 BC Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom
Date collected: 1922-1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Width: max 166 mm, Height: max 143 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.43.70 Other numbers: 1541
Research and responses: In 1894 Flinders Petrie founded an organisation known as the Egyptian Research Account to support archaeological fieldwork in Egypt; in 1905, this became the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE), which sponsored his work at Qau [RTS 18/1/2005].
The number written on this object (23/1541) is an excavator's mark referring to the year of excavation (1923) and the tomb number, in this case tomb 1541. [AS 08/06/2012]
Associated publications: Brunton, G. (1927) Qau and Badari I. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Head-rests from the site are discussed on page 62, although the one from grave 1541 was not drawn in the publication [AS 13/06/2012].

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