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Description: | Oval wooden box in five parts (top, base and sides and both curved ends, disarticulated). Painted decoration of floral motifs, fruits and birds, on yellow ground: on lid, two birds, and white, red and green floral motifs with fruit and branches; on base, one bird in brown and green, red fruits and brown-green leaves; on the sides, fruits and brown-green leaves. with pink flowers and green birds, outlined in black, on a yellow ground. From a group found in the week of March 18-24 1888, during excavations directed by Petrie at Hawara, identified on the basis of the hairnets and large number of spindles in the group as from the burial of a girl or young woman. Waxed for protection but unstable. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Roman Period; start=-30; end=395 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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