Fragment of a Book Label | Yale University Art Gallery

1390–1352 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Blue-glazed faience
Dimensions: 3/4 × 1/8 × 1 9/16 in. (1.9 × 0.3 × 4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ludlow S. Bull, B.A. 1907
Accession Number: 1936.100
Culture: Egyptian, New Kingdom
Period: Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

ex-Garrett Chatfield Pier Collection.

Bibliography

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 99, no. 50, fig. 50a

Gerry D. Scott, III, The Past Rediscovered: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Peabody Museum, 1983), 23, no. 258, ill

Alfred Hermann, "Buchillustrationen auf ägyptischen Bücherkästen," Miteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 15 (1957), 112–118

Jean Capart, "Les Ex-Libris d'Aménophis III," Cronique d'Egypte 20 (July 1935), 23–25, fig. 2, 3

Ludwig Keimer, "Bemerkungen und Lesefrüchte zur Altägyptischen Naturgeschichte," Kêmi (1929), 90–94

Dr. Henry Reginald Holland Hall, "An Egyptian Royal Bookplate: The Ex-Libris of Amenophis III and Teie," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 12, nos. 1–2 (April 1926), 31–32

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Additional information

Inscriptions

"The book of the Ma (pomengranate?) -tree"

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