Tablet depicting a benu bird
This plaque is decorated with the image of a benu bird and appears to be an ancient Egyptian artefact. Closer examination shows it is actually a fake made for the tourist market in the 19th or 20th centuries.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 428/1975/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- tablet depicting a benu bird
- Simple Name
- tablet
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Modern (1900-)
