BIB_ID
454713
Accession number
MA 23840.1220
Creator
Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2023.
Description
1 item (1 page) : illustration ; 9 x 13 cm
Notes
Date from postmark.
Picture postcard of an Egyptian bas relief. Caption on verso: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden -- Leiden / Ovetwonnen vorsten / Fragmant uit het graf van Hor-em-heb / Egypte, ong. 1350 v. Chr.
Addressed to James Ivory, Esq., 400 East 52 St., New York City, NY, U.S.A., postmarked November 2, 1973.
Picture postcard of an Egyptian bas relief. Caption on verso: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden -- Leiden / Ovetwonnen vorsten / Fragmant uit het graf van Hor-em-heb / Egypte, ong. 1350 v. Chr.
Addressed to James Ivory, Esq., 400 East 52 St., New York City, NY, U.S.A., postmarked November 2, 1973.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Reads: Bas relief showing HAPIRU or Hekinos[?], the word meaning in Egyptian "dog that bites its master" hollering to be let into Egypt because their country was starving. far [sic] cry from Moshe and Golda though the generic likeness remains. Have been reporting[?] in Algeria/Marseille. x B.
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