Fragment
- Description
-
This shows a quail chick and possibly the feet on an owl. The quail chick is the
hieroglyph for the sound value ‘oo’ (for which we use W or U). Relief carving was the most expensive form of tomb decoration as the hieroglyphs were shown by cutting back the greater part of the background limestone. This fragment is almost certainly from the Tomb of the Pharaoh Seti I discovered by Belzoni in 1817.
- Accession Loan No.
- A516
- Collection Class
- Archaeology
- Common Name
- fragment
- Simple Name
- fragment
- Full Name
- Fragment of Tomb Wall
- Period Classification
- New Kingdom (Dynasties 18-20) - 1650-1070 BC
- Production Year Low
- 1292 BC
- Production Year High
- 1189 BC
- Production Country
- Egypt
- Material
- Painted
limestone
- Collection Site Name
- Thebes
