Ancient Egyptian stamp from Naukratis

Circular red pottery stamp. Ridged along the back to form a ledge style handle. Broken off along two edges. The decorated face has an incised image of a man, with arms raised, and legs apart, behind a curved object. Behind the man seems to be the like hieroglyph for hrw, or a wine jar. This glyph is almost as tall as the man. Around this group is a circular heringbone border, edged, where it remains intact, by an overlapping leaf design with discs possibly berries or similar.
Labelled as Cake Stamp on catalogue cards.

Ancient Egyptian stamp from Naukratis

Object details

  • Reference: BOLMG:1886.31.35
  • Material: pottery
  • Excavator: W.M.F. Petrie
  • Object name: stamp
  • Dimensions: Length: 88mm , Width: 88mm , Depth: 39mm
  • Published references: Petrie W M F Naukratis 1 1886 pl XXIX
  • Site: Naukratis
  • Latitude: 30.901111
  • Longitude: 30.5925