Brick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jan 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George W. Samson
label: Site Name
content: Dahshur (not certain)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "From the pyramid of Asychis who according to [John Gardner] Wilkinson reigned 100 years before Abraham. Straw still preserved." Anthropology catalogue ledger book calls this a "sun-baked" brick, and notes that straw is still visible in it.
label: Notes
content: See pp. 131 - 132 of Wilkinson, John Gardner. 1837. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufacturers, religion and early history : derived from a comparison of the painting, sculptures and monuments still existing with the accounts of ancient authors ; in three volumes 1. 1. London: Murray, where Wilkinson identifies the purported "Asychis" pyramid as a brick pyramid at Dahshur. See p. 388 in Karl Baedeker (Firm). 1878. Egypt: handbook for travellers. Pt 1. Leipsic: K. Baedeker, where it is noted about the northernmost brick pyramid at Dahshur: "It is sometimes pointed out, but without any authority, as the fabulous pyramid which Herodotus mentions as having been erected by King Asychis ..." The northernmost pyramid at Dahshur is the mudbrick Pyramid of Senusret III.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dahshur (not certain), Lower Egypt (not certain), Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015674
label: USNM Number
content: A74883-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Brick