Knife-like cutting instrument in bronze consisting of a blade in shape of the m,.t-feather with a finely serrated edge and of a handle in the form of a curved papyrus bundle with umbel, the latter bearing a ring of suspension; all in one piece.
Condition: Good although slightly corroded and discolored in spots. Traced of bronze disease.
Small bronze barbed fish-hook with limerick bend, flat-hammered end and attached ancient string of flax.
Condition: Brown to black in color with area of green. Surface is scratched and partially corroded. Piece of hammered end may be missing.
Small bronze hair curler, undecorated.
Condition: Bronze in color, with areas of black. Surfaces are pitted. Curling ends of trough and knife are blunt, perhaps broken off.
A small bronze tweezer razor in the form of a swimming Nubian female. She wears a short wig, an armlet, a wide necklace, a short decorated kilt and chest sashes. Her outstretched arms form the upper part of the tweezer. They are attached to the lower half of the tweezer with a metal pivot pin in front of her elbows. Below her feet an area of metal sharp on its edge, forms the razor.
Condition: Good.
Bronze ladle or shallow pan with round bowl and flat tapering handle terminating in goose’s neck and head, bent back from handle to form loop. Two sets of three incised lines on handle; eyes of goose originally inlaid.
Condition: Good, bronze is yellow-brown and now in very good condition. Object was heavily corroded and showed slightly traces of bronze disease.
Bronze mirror in two parts; papyriform handle ends in an umbel topped with two ibex heads, facing out; their horns meet in the center. A rectangular socket in the handle received the trapezoidal tenon from the disk itself which is ellipsoid in shape.
Condition: Scratched and in several areas on both handle and disk with bronze disease.
Bound and kneeling bronze figure of a Nubian. The figure, whose hands are bound behind his back is garbed only in a kilt. This piece is normally described as part of a piece of furniture, and perhaps it was made, to judge from representations of furniture in tomb ptgs., to be set onto a horizontal connection between two chair legs. There is no indication that the top of the head supported anything.
Condition: Figure pitted on right side at level of waist; kilt and knees are abraded. Patina black with traces of copper metal showing through areas of rubbing. Pitted on back. Treated previously-possible varnish.
One small bronze of a kneeling man. He wears a skull cap, holding him an offering table. Incised on his back is an inscription. One tang descends from his knees.
Condition: Good brown/black patina. Some green under the arms. Slight superficial pitting. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Kneeling figures grinding grain. Inscribed for a man names S3-3st. The figure wears a double wig; the facial features are those found in sculpture during the reign of Amenhotep III. Inscriptions are to be found on the body and grinder.
Condition: Right hand missing; part of chest missing; part of surface also missing on right thigh and lap; also right shoulder. Large cracks in wig.
Bronze signet ring, cast solid in one piece, inscribed for Rameses II.
Condition: Small chips and some corrosion. There is a small crack which has been mended.
Flat circular metal (see below) mirror disc and handle in the form of a female with upraised arms. Dark reddish brown copper disc cast and hammered; obverse silvered. Defects in casting show on obverse and reverse as irregular depressed blackish areas. Edges of varying thicknesses show natural hammering. Handle in form of slender female with long legs and feet together forming base for missing tang (?). Round face of female simply modeled with sweet-smiling expression and wearing cap or wig which merges into support for mirror disc. "Arms" as stylized loops swung up also reaching support for mirror disc. Handle cast in two part mold. Marks of coarse polishing over much of back and upper part of handle. Hole drilled in top to receive tang of mirror disc. Cast defect visible on back of left leg. Handle is copper alloyed with silver.
Condition: Intact. Except for tang below handle which has been broken off. Light striations over surfaces due to coarse polishing. Slight imperfections of surface also due to original casting, particularly on rear left leg of female-handle and in patches of mirror disc. Generally dark surface with lighter golden-reddish patches. Crack in disc runs up at diagonal from lower left edge of obverse ca. 1.6 cm.
Bronze tweezers, rounded, with flattened ends spreading toward tips, and preceded by a rounded projection; decorated with two groups of three short transversal lines at the places where the outline begins to spread.
Condition: Very slightly corroded.