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Description: | ; Date(s): circa -332 - circa -30; Classification(s): written document, writing board, inscribed; Acquisition: bequeathed by Gayer-Anderson, R.G. (Major), 1943 [E.GA.4695.1943]
Description: writing board, part missing. Ruled Egyptian text in Demotic script from the 'Tale of Pedubastet'. Both the Egyptian Demotic language and Greek co-existed during the Ptolemaic period but Greek was the official language of administration. Demotic is a cursive form of hieroglyphic script.
There are two holes across the left-hand edge, about 0.8 cm in diamter and 6 cm apart, of unknown purpose | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | written document writing board | Temporal: | name=Ptolemaic period; start=-332; end=-30 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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