Sketch
Medium:Limestone
Geography: Excavated at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
Date: c. 1550-1069 BC
Period: 18th-20th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Dimensions:12.5 × 9 × 4 cm
Object number: 907.18.12
Gallery Location:Galleries of Africa: Egypt
DescriptionThis ostracon is one of a particularly interesting and valuable type that shows an ancient Egyptian architect at work. This is a sketch of the floor plan or perhaps the elevation, of a building. Such sketches could be consulted as the work progressed, or might have been the preliminary designs for a building. Occasionally such drawings can be identified with known tombs or temples, but that is unfortunately not the case here.
