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#0092
height 16,9 cm, width of disc 15,8 cm, thickness of disc 0,1 cm: length of
pin 2,2 cm, thickness of pin 0,15 cm
Typology: type la - disc with a rectangular, oblong pin
Site: together with a flint blade and a bonę disc in the tomb no. XXIII, in the
Southern section of necropolis from the Middle Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc broken in two places near the top
edge; one side of disc is covered with patina, with dark spots in the middle,
the other side of disc is covered with light-green patina on which some textile
was impressed; the pin's bottom edge is broken; the mirror was renovated.
Dating: 12th Dynasty
6. Inv. no. 140330
copper (?)
height 18,9 cm, width of disc 18,7cm, thickness of disc 0,15 cm, length
of pin 2 cm, thickness of pin 0,2 cm
Typology: type la - disc with a rectangular, oblong pin
Site: next to the deceased's head together with several clay beads and animal
teeth in the tomb no. XXXIII, in the Southern territory of necropolis dating
from the Middle Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc has jagged edges and is broken, in the
middle the surface is corroded and there are smali holes, the surface is dark-
90
pin 2,2 cm, thickness of pin 0,15 cm
Typology: type la - disc with a rectangular, oblong pin
Site: together with a flint blade and a bonę disc in the tomb no. XXIII, in the
Southern section of necropolis from the Middle Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc broken in two places near the top
edge; one side of disc is covered with patina, with dark spots in the middle,
the other side of disc is covered with light-green patina on which some textile
was impressed; the pin's bottom edge is broken; the mirror was renovated.
Dating: 12th Dynasty
6. Inv. no. 140330
copper (?)
height 18,9 cm, width of disc 18,7cm, thickness of disc 0,15 cm, length
of pin 2 cm, thickness of pin 0,2 cm
Typology: type la - disc with a rectangular, oblong pin
Site: next to the deceased's head together with several clay beads and animal
teeth in the tomb no. XXXIII, in the Southern territory of necropolis dating
from the Middle Kingdom
State of preservation: lack of handle, disc has jagged edges and is broken, in the
middle the surface is corroded and there are smali holes, the surface is dark-
90