Wood Board with Hieratic Inscription

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Artist Stephen Thompson(British, about 1830–1893)British, about 1830–1893

CultureBritish

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Wood Board with Hieratic Inscription
280. XII DYNASTY. B.C. 1800. Wood board with Hieratic inscription. Treatise on grammar and rhetoric for the use of a school, written about B.C. 1800

Datec. 1870

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (18.4 × 27.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (18.4 × 27.4 cm)
Mount: 14 × 17 15/16 in. (35.5 × 45.6 cm)
Mat: 15 15/16 × 20 in. (40.5 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

Object number2022.338

Non exposé

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceClifton College, Bristol, England; [...]; [Charles Isaacs, New York]; given to MFAH, 2022.
Published References "Catalogue of a series of photographs (by S. Thompson) from the collection on the British Museum," London: Mansell, 1872. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed label affixed to mount, recto, BLC: "280. XII DYNASTY. B.C. 1800. Wood board with Hieratic inscription. Treatise on grammar and rhetoric for the use of a school, written about B.C. 1800". Stamped in blue ink on mount, recto, BRC: "The Library, // Clifton College."

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