Pigment

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Two pieces of red ochre pigment and a haematite stone rubber (thought to break up the pigment into powder) collected at Amarna by W. M. Flinders Petrie. Largest piece of cohre is annotated in pencil, "Tel Amarna M". Previously mounted on a display board by Flaxman Spurrell, with a handwritten label on the back, "crude red ochre Tel El Amarna".