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Description: | These clappers were collected by the famous Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie in the late 19th century. Petrie held a professorship in archaeology at University College London, and his collection of Egyptian artefacts has been on display in the university's Petrie Museum since 1913. Emslie John Horniman, the son of Horniman Museum founder Frederick Horniman, acquired these clappers from Petrie and donated them to the Horniman Museum in 1913.
Concussion plaques, clappers, of bone, in the form of a pair of hands with forearms. Engravings on the plaques represent the finger joints of the hands, with decoration at the wrists. Each plaque has a hole at the base, probably to allow them to be tied together.
Illustrated in R. Engelbach. British School of Archaeology in Egypt Research Account Nineteenth Year, 1913: Riqqeh and Memphis. (London, 1915), plate xii, No. 13 right hand pair, also described p. 16 ' Four ivory wands of the xviiith dynasty, used for beating time at the dance. Found with an infant's body in cemetery B.'
Horniman Museum register 1913 : 'Ivory arms used as castanets. Riqqeh, 18th Dynasty.Collected by Prof. Flinders Petrie & others. Pres(ente)d by Mr E.J. Horniman. No. of items 1+1. Dimensions L. 6½, 6½. Remarks: 270'
MDA Catalogue Card: g. Mr. E.J. Horniman (Prof. Flinder-Petrie & others). | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | Horniman Museum and Gardens Leisure clappers (idiophones) bone Lewisham 111.11 Concussion sticks or stick clappers clappers | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12949 |
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