Clay ostracon written document, ostracon, figured,...
Clay ostracon written document, ostracon, figured, ostracon
; Date(s): circa -1550 - circa -1069; Classification(s): written document, ostracon, figured, painted; Acquisition: bequeathed by Gayer-Anderson, R.G. (Major), 1943 [E.GA.4289.1943]
Description: jar fragment, with two sketches of a lion(-ess) on recto, a head and accounts verso; the drawings on the recto are in black ink of lion head, in red ink of roaring lion head (in black the lion's mouth is closed and in the red painted overlay it roars).