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Description: | Cream faience model in the shape of a cucumber.
The model cucumber was found in the debris in a tomb shaft under the Ramesseum (Tomb 5 - 'The Magician's Tomb') together with several other magical objects in the Museum (see 1787 - 1801 (except 1793), 1832, 1834, 1835, 1837-1841, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1887; possibly 1863, 1883, 1885), a copper alloy serpent wand entwined with human hair, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.63.1896), an ivory figurine of a dwarf carrying calf, now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (E.13405) and a group of magical and medical papyri, which are now in the British Museum, London, and Berlin.
Technique: Glazed, Material: Faience, Glaze | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.105999 | Go to resource |
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