Dress Ornaments
- Hilton Price Number
- HP72
- Current Location
- National Museum of Scotland
- Museum Accession Number
- A.1911.320; A.1911.320 A
- Object Type
- Clothing, Garment/dress, Dress ornament
- Materials
- Fibre/textile (from plants and animals) (Flax) | Textile/fibres (Wool)
- Provenance
- Egypt, Akhmim
- Number of Elements
- 2
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Animal
- Unknown
Licensing details
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- Description
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Two oval Ornaments, from a robe of yellow flax; woven ornament of an animal and a boy in coloured wools on a red ground. Aḥmîm.
- Bibliography
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Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.
- Link To Museum Catalogue
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https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/linen-fragment/404860
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/linen-fragment/404861
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- Buyer
- Fenton
- Former Owner
- Frederick George Hilton Price (1842–1909)
- Last modified: 28 Jul 2021