The John Walter Sinclair Collection
Title
The John Walter Sinclair Collection
Description
A collection of antiquities acquired by Corporal John Walter Sinclair in Egypt, 1916.
Identifier
C.001
Provenance
Acquired by Corporal John Walter Sinclair, Egypt, 1916.
Rights Holder
Brisbane Private Collection
Contributor
Mr James Donaldson
Collection Items
Label
Scrap of lined paper on which is written in black ink: Brought from Abydos 1? hour by motor from Balinana Stn abt 5 or 6th Dynasty. Found in Tomb sacred Talab or fox. No known association with other Sinclair Collection Pieces
Label
tissue reading: beast waiting to devour unworthy souls at judgement and in a different ink Anubis? . The identification in each case is not correct and the amulet is certainly a classic representation of taweret. With L.16.033 A
Label
Wrapped with a note in pencil on a scrap of lined paper reading: petrified Rhinocerus hide from Siwa? In the Libyan Desert. With L.16.032 A
Label
tissue with a modern note recording the identification of the two cartouches. With L.16.029 A
Label
With an envelope (post 1916) on which is written in dark ink: Bes, probably after 1000 BC. The serpent strangler; Note long hair, bow legs, squat figure. The prototype of satyrs gorgons etc. God of childbirth and the female arts spinning etc.…
Envelope
envelope on which is written: Faience beads picked up in the sand Valley of the Tombs of the Kings 1916. Circa 1500 BC (pre Tutankhamen) authenticated by British Museum. 3400 yrs old With L.16.019 A
Label
Facial tissue with blue biro text. With L.16.014 A
Label
Contemporary swing-tag with L.16.014 A (not attached) reading: PO 5 2 Bronze figures found in the Island of Philae.
Document
Tissue with L.16.013 A with blue biro text.
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