DOI article:
Stępniak, Karolina: Egyptian mirrors from the French-Polish excavations in Tell Edfu
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0090
3. Inv. no. 141673
copper (?)
height 10,1 cm, width of disc 9,4 cm, thickness of disc 0,15 cm, length of pin
1,7 cm, thickness of pin 0,2 cm
Typology: type la, the pin shape was impossible to define due to corrosion.
Site: together with ceramics, basin and alabaster vase in the tomb no. IX, in
the Southern territory of necropolis dating from the Old Kingdom.
State of preservation: lack of handle; edges of disc slightly jagged, one side
of disc covered with black-brown coating, on the edges the colour is
copperlike, the other side covered with green patina; pin corroded, edges
destroyed; the mirror was renovated.
Dating: 6th Dynasty
4. Inv.no. 140334
copper (?)
height 8,7 cm, width of disc 7,9 cm; thickness of disc 0,1 cm
Typology: type la or II, its pin shape was impossible to define due to corrosion.
Site: among the bricks, east of mastaba no. XIII, in the eastern section of
necropolis dating from the Old Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc strongly corroded and broken on
the edges, with a smali hole near the edge; the pin was partly preserved and
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copper (?)
height 10,1 cm, width of disc 9,4 cm, thickness of disc 0,15 cm, length of pin
1,7 cm, thickness of pin 0,2 cm
Typology: type la, the pin shape was impossible to define due to corrosion.
Site: together with ceramics, basin and alabaster vase in the tomb no. IX, in
the Southern territory of necropolis dating from the Old Kingdom.
State of preservation: lack of handle; edges of disc slightly jagged, one side
of disc covered with black-brown coating, on the edges the colour is
copperlike, the other side covered with green patina; pin corroded, edges
destroyed; the mirror was renovated.
Dating: 6th Dynasty
4. Inv.no. 140334
copper (?)
height 8,7 cm, width of disc 7,9 cm; thickness of disc 0,1 cm
Typology: type la or II, its pin shape was impossible to define due to corrosion.
Site: among the bricks, east of mastaba no. XIII, in the eastern section of
necropolis dating from the Old Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc strongly corroded and broken on
the edges, with a smali hole near the edge; the pin was partly preserved and
88