Object Values

Object Data:

A pottery
fragment with drawings of a list of clothes sent for washing
(laundry list), including an apron, a scarf, a shawl, a band with
fringes and a shirt, and other pieces of unknown use, and the dots
inside each shape indicate the number of pieces sent for washing
of this type. This sample was likely for the illiterate (someone who
does not know how to read and write) to make it easier for him to
count his clothes.

Red Pottery

14cm*8cm

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, c. 1292 - 1190 BC

Deir el-Medina,

Luxor, Brewer excavations 1934

The object was in the Egyptian Textile Museum and now it is in the
National museum of Egyptian Civilization.
Object Values:

1) Age: approximately 3350 years.

2) Exceptional value: looks like an early laundry in ancient

Egypt and the smart thought to use drawing and dots to
express the number of items sent for washing.

3) Original Object.

Thank You

To: Dr.Osama Abd-elwareth

By: Farag maghawry Farag