Stone mould
- Accession Number
- EC655
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Implements and utensils, Mould
- Material
- Stone/minerals
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
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- Description
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Black stone mould. 92x43x21mm. For a collection of stone moulds and suggestions as to what they may have been used for see Lacovara et al. 2001. 'The Collector's Eye....' p99-101. Plant decoration on one side, solar (?) decoration with a figure on the other side. Motives do not look ancient Egyptian. Two shallow holes on each side, those on the ""plant"" side and thickness are connected.
- Other Identity
- 161 | (This Wellcome label was found seperate from any object and had the words 'mould: black basalt' It could belong to this mould or any other black mould in the collection.)
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
