Red ochre cake
Object type: Paint pigment, red ochre cake
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 17–Early Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1635–1458 B.C.
Medium: Mineral (red ochre)
Dimensions: L. 3.6 cm × W. 2.5 cm (1 7/16 × 1 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Asasif
Locale: Courtyard CC 41, Tomb R 3
Locus: Burial C 4, In coffin
Excavation: MMA excavations, 1915–16
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1916
Accession year: 1916