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Magical Pottery Fish

Perhaps used in rituals, as a rattle.

Provenance unknown.

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III or Akhenaten, c. 1390-1336 BCE.

Acc. No.: 48.111

A Fragment of Relief from Deir el-Bahri Showing Attendants of Hatshepsut

A Pottery Human-Headed Lid of a Canopic Jar

A Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Akhenaten as a Winged Sphinx

Akhenaten as a Winged Sphinx

Alabaster Canopic Jar

Alabaster Canopic Jar

Alabaster Canopic Jar

Alabaster Goblet Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep IV

Alabaster Jar with Floral Collar in Relief

Alabaster Jar with Floral Collar in Relief

Alabaster Ungent Vessel with Name of Kiya

Amenhotep III Seated in a Double Pavilion Representing His Sed Festival, with Tiye Offering Life to Him

Amulets and Necklace with Frog-Shaped Beads

Anthropoid Coffin of the Servant of the Great Place Teti

Anthropoid Coffin of the Servant of the Great Place Teti

Anthropoid Coffin of the Servant of the Great Place Teti

Anthropoid Coffin of the Servant of the Great Place Teti

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Arm Panel from a Ceremonial Chair

Base for a Votive Model of a Temple Gateway

Basket Containing Provisions

Basket Containing Provisions

Battle Axe with Handle, and a Blade from a Battle Axe

Block Statue of Ay

Block Statue of Ay

Block Statue of Ay

Block Statue of Min, Overseer of Weavers

Block Statue of Min, Overseer of Weavers

Blue Painted Ware from Malkata

Bowl Buried with Rennefer wife of Noferkhawt

Box of an Anthropoid Coffin

Box of an Anthropoid Coffin

Box of an Anthropoid Coffin

Box of an Anthropoid Coffin

Bronze Axe Head

Bronze Axe Head

Bronze hes Vase

Bucrania Ceiling Painting from the Palace of Amenhotep III

Bucrania Ceiling Painting from the Palace of Amenhotep III

Bucrania Ceiling Painting from the Palace of Amenhotep III

Burial Chamber of Sobekmose

Burial Chamber of Sobekmose

Burial Chamber of Sobekmose

Bust of a Statue of Sekhmet

Canopic Chest of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Canopic Chest of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Canopic Jar of Maruta, One of Three Minor Wives of Tutmosis III

Canopic Jar of Maruta, One of Three Minor Wives of Tutmosis III

Canopic Jars and Covers of Tjuli

Canopic Jars and Covers of Tjuli

Canopic Jars and Covers of Tjuli

Canopic Jars and Covers of Tjuli

Carved Walking Sticks

Carved Walking Sticks

Carved Walking Sticks

Cat Bracelet or Armlet

Ceiling Decoration from a Theban Tomb

Ceiling Fragment from the Palace of Amenhotep III Depicting Pigeons in Flight

Ceiling Fragment from the Palace of Amenhotep III Depicting Pigeons in Flight

Ceremonial Saw in the Shape of a Ma'at Feather

Ceremonial Sickle of the Field Worker of Amun, Amunemhat

Ceremonial Sickle of the Field Worker of Amun, Amunemhat

Chair Belonging to the Scribe Reniseneb

Chair Belonging to the Scribe Reniseneb

Chair Found in Pieces Outside Sealed Door of Hatnofer's Tomb

Coffin and Grave Goods

Coffin and Mummy Board of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Coffin and Mummy Board of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Coffin of Ahmose, Son of the Mistress of the House Nahkte

Coffin of Ahmose, Son of the Mistress of the House Nahkte

Coffin of Ahmose, Son of the Mistress of the House Nahkte

Coffin of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Coffin of the Mistress of the House, Teti

Coffin, Mummy Board and Mummy Mask of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Coffins and Mummy Mask of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Coffins of the singer Harmose (left) and an anonymous woman (right)

Cosmetic Boxes in the Shape of Ducks

Cosmetic Container in Form of a Trussed Goose

Cosmetic Objects Datable to Dynasty 18

Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Dwarf

Counterweight for a Necklace in the Shape of Mut

Decorated Wood & Ivory Box with a Sliding Lid

Decorated Wood & Ivory Box with a Sliding Lid

Decorative Tile

Detail from the Coffin of the Singer Hormose

Detail of Relief Showing Akhenaten and His Daughter Offering to the Aten

Detail of Rishi Coffin

Dish in the Form of a Bound Ibex

Door Jambs of Rau

Egyptian Relief with Running Spiral

Face from a Composite Statue

Face from a Composite Statue

Face of a Lion Statue

Face of Amenhotep II

Faience Armlets & Necklaces

Faience Hes Vase with Cover

Faience Tile with Lapwing Motif

Faience Walking Lion

Female Monkey Holding Its Baby and Hippopotamus

Floral Tile Freize

Foundation Deposit

Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Royal Tomb

Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahri

Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahri

Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahri

Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahri

Four Carved Plaques

Four Statues of Sekhmet

Four Statues of Sekhmet

Four Statues of Sekhmet

Fragment of a Statue of Amenhotep I

Fragment of a Vase Decorated with an Ibex & Plants

Fragment of a Votive Statue

Fragment of a Votive Statue

Fragment of a Votive Statue

Fragment of a Wig from a Composite Statue

Fragment of a Wig from a Composite Statue

Fragment of an Alabaster Vessel

Fragment of Leather Painted with Erotic Scene

Fragment of the Face of a Queen

Fragment of the Magic Wand or Clapper

Fragmentary Statue of a Lion Subduing a Foreign Captive

Fragmentary Statue of a Lion Subduing a Foreign Captive

Fragmentary Statue of a Vizier

Fragmentary Statue of a Vizier

Funerary Equipment of Maruta, One of Three Minor Wives of Tutmosis III

Funerary Mask of Hatnofer

Funerary Mask of Hatnofer

Funerary Papyrus of the Tax Master and Steward Sethnakhte

Funerary Papyrus of the Tax Master and Steward Sethnakhte

Funerary Papyrus of the Tax Master and Steward Sethnakhte

Funerary Papyrus of the Tax Master and Steward Sethnakhte

Funerary Stela for a Man named Ba

Funerary Stela for a Man named Ba

Furniture Attachment in Shape of a Bound Prisoner

Furniture Inlays in Form of Djed Pillars and Tyt-Amulet

Game Board & Pieces and Throwing Sticks

Game Board and Pieces

Girdles, Decorated with Simplified Cowrie Shell Design

Glass Vessels and Ostraca from the Ramesside Period

Glass Vessels from the Ramesside Period

Glass Vessels from the Ramesside Period

Glass Vessels from the Ramesside Period

Glazed Tile with Palms

Gold Collars and Pectorals

Gold Collars and Pectorals

Gold Sandals, Toe and Finger Stalls Belonging to a minor wife of Thutmose III

Gold Sandals, Toe and Finger Stalls Belonging to a minor wife of Thutmose III

Goods from the Burial of a Child

Grain Storage Jar with Blue-Paint Design

Grain Storage Jar with Blue-Paint Design

Handle of Model Axe Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Hatnofer's Personal Posessions

Hatshepsut as Maned Sphinx

Hatshepsut as Maned Sphinx

Head & Bust from a Seated Statue

Head & Shoulders of an Osiride Statue

Head and Shoulders from an Osiride Statue

Head from a Life Size Statue of an Egyptian Official

Head of a Colossal Statue of the God Amun

Head of a Colossal Statue of the God Amun

Head of a Colossal Statue of the God Amun

Head of a Cow Goddess

Head of Ahmose I

Head of an 18th Dynasty King, possible Ahmose or Amenhotep I

Head of an 18th Dynasty King, possible Ahmose or Amenhotep I

Head of an Egyptian Queen

Head of an Egyptian Queen

Head of Hatshepsut or Thutmose III

Head of Hatshepsut or Thutmose III

Head of Seti II

Head of Seti II

Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

Heads of Osiride Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el Bahri

Heads of Osiride Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el Bahri

Heads of Osiride Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el Bahri

Heads of Osiride Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el Bahri

Hinged Bracelets or Armlets

Hinged Bracelets or Armlets

Hippopotamus Head

Horemheb Shown as a Scribe

Horemheb Shown as a Scribe

Inlay Fragments of Foreigners

Inlay Fragments of Foreigners

Inner Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Inner Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Inscribed Funerary Cones

Inscribed Funerary Cones

Isis and Wepwawet

Ivory Ibis-Headed Thoth Figurine

Ivory Kohl Container

Ivory Kohl Container

Ivory Unguent Box

Jars with Carved Stoppers

Jars with Carved Stoppers

Jars with Carved Stoppers

Jars with Carved Stoppers

Jars with Carved Stoppers

Jewellery Box with Lid

Jubilee Relief of Ramesses II

Kaemwaset Kneeling with an Emblem of Hatshepsut

Kneeling Figure of Amenhotep III

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Kneeling Statue of Senenmut

Kneeling Statue of Senenmut

Kneeling Statues of Hatshepsut

Kohl Pot with Openwork Design Featuring Falcons

Lower Part of a Granite Doorjamb from a Temple of Ramesses II

Lower Part of a Granite Doorjamb from a Temple of Ramesses II

Lower Part of a Granite Doorjamb from a Temple of Ramesses II

Lower Part of a Granite Doorjamb from a Temple of Ramesses II

Magical Pottery Fish

Mask of a Man's Face

Meretseger Represented as a Snake

Metal Vessels from a Temple Deposit

Miniature Mask for a Canopic Bundle

Miniature Situla of Meketaten

Mirror with Papyrus Handle and Two Ibex Heads

Model Food Offering of a Bound Gazelle

Model of Woman Lying on a Bed Using a Headrest

Mummy Mask of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Mummy Mask of the Mistress of the House Iynaferty

Mummy Mask of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Noferkhawt's Burial Goods

Noferkhawt's Burial Goods

Noferkhawt's Burial Goods

Objects Found in Seankhkare Cemetery

Objects from Senenmut's Tomb

Objects from the Tomb of Tutmosis IV

Ostraca from Sheikh Abd el Qurna

Ostracon Depicting a Layout for a Relief

Ostracon Depicting a Pharaoh Slaying an Lion

Ostracon depicting an animal fable or myth in the upper register and a princess in the lower

Ostracon Depicting the God Ptah

Ostracon from Sheikh Abd el Qurna

Ostracon Showing a Cat and a Mouse

Ostracon with a Sketch of a Hippopotamus

Ostracon with a Small Satirical Sketch

Ostracon with Fighting Bulls

Ostracon with Sketch of a Sparrow

Outer Coffin of Kamwese

Outer Coffin of Kamwese

Outer Coffin of Kamwese

Outer Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Outer Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Outer Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Outer Coffin of the Servitor in the Place of Truth Khonsu

Painted Slender Jar

Painting of a Statue of a King

Palace Wall Painting

Part of a Bowl Inscribed for Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tiye

Pedestal for a Small Statue

Perfume Bottle in Shape of a Hes Vessel

Pieces of Glass Vessels

Pieces of Pots with Inscriptions

Posthumous Stela Depicting Amenhotep I and Ahmose-Nefertari

Pottery Vessels

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of Wall Decoration from the Temple of Amun in Malkata

Relief Depicting a Nobleman

Relief Depicting a Nobleman

Relief Fragment Depicting Akhenaten

Relief Fragment Depicting Grain

Relief Fragment Depicting the Head of Amenhotep I

Relief Fragment from the 11th Dynasty Tomb of Khety, Royal Treasurer, with 19th Dynasty Graffiti

Relief from a Chapel Wall Depicting Amenhotep I Wearing the White Crown

Relief from a Chapel Wall Depicting Amenhotep I Wearing the White Crown

Relief of a Battle Scene

Relief of Ramesses IX Facing an Hymn of Praise in His Honour

Relief of Soldiers Honouring Their Lord

Relief Showing a Kitchen Scene

Relief Showing Akhenaten and His Daughter Offering to the Aten

Relief Showing Man Feeding Calves

Relief Showing Offering Bearers

Relief Showing Temple Courtyard with Incense Burners and Offering Tables

Relief Showing Two Statues of Ramesses II

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Reliefs from Chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos

Right Eye from an Anthropoid Coffin

Rishi Coffin with Scene of Butchering.

Rishi Coffin with Scene of Butchering.

Sarcophagus of Senenmut

Sarcophagus of Senenmut

Sarcophagus of Senenmut

Scribe Satute of Amunhotep, son of Nebiry

Scribe Statue of Amunhotep, son of Nebiry

Seated Figure of a Scribe Under the Protection of Thoth

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

Shabti of Neferptah

Shabti of Neferptah

Shabti of Sedjem Ash Maya

Shabti of Sedjem Ash Maya

Shabti of Sedjem Ash Maya

Shabti of Tebure

Shabti of Tebure

Shabti of the Chief Colour Maker of the Treasury, Huy

Shabti of the Chief Colour Maker of the Treasury, Huy

Shabti of the Chief Colour Maker of the Treasury, Huy

Shabti of the Lady Sati

Shabti of the Lady Sati

Shabti of the Lady Sati

Shabtis and Funerary Figurines

Shabtis and Shabti Boxes of Sennedjem's Family

Shabtis and Shabti Boxes of Sennedjem's Family

Shabtis and Shrines from the Tomb of Yuya & Tuya

Shabtis of Sennedjem and Iynaferty

Shabtis of Siptah

Shabtis of Siptah

Small Vase with Flower Decoration

Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Sphinx of Thutmose III

Spoon in the Shape of a Swimming Woman Holding a Gazelle or Ibex

Spoon with a Cartouche Shaped Bowl Decorated with a Pond

Spoon with a Handle in the Shape of a Floral Bouquet

Standing Figure of Amenhotep III

Standing Figure of Amenhotep III

Standing Figure of Amenhotep III

Statue Fragment from the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna

Statue Fragment from the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna

Statue Fragment from the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna

Statue Fragment from the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna

Statue of Amenhotep III

Statue of Amenhotep III

Statue of Amun-Re or Amunhotep III

Statue of Neferkhawet, Rennefer and Their Family

Statue of Sa-Iset the Younger

Statue of Sa-Iset the Younger

Statue of Seti I

Statue of the High Priest of Amun, Menkheperreseneb

Statue of the High Priest of Amun, Menkheperreseneb

Statue of Thutmose III

Statue of Thutmose III

Statue of Thutmose III from Afar

Statue of Thutmose III Offering

Statue of Yuny and his wife Renenutet

Statue of Yuny and his wife Renenutet

Statue of Yuny and his wife Renenutet

Statue of Yuny and his wife Renenutet

Statuette of The Great Craftsman in the Place-of-Truth, Karo

Statuette of The Great Craftsman in the Place-of-Truth, Karo

Statuette of Two Men & a Boy

Stela Depicting Ahmose-Nefertari Behind the Seated God Amun with Her Son Amenhotep I Behind Her

Stela of a Soldier Named Amenemhat

Stela of Pay offering to Re-Horakhty

Stela of Userhat and his wife Nefertari

Storage Jars from the Tomb of Three Minor Wives of Thutmose III

Storage Jars from the Tomb of Three Minor Wives of Thutmose III

Storage Jars from the Tomb of Three Minor Wives of Thutmose III

Tall Round Bottomed Decorated Pot

Textile Honouring the Goddess Hathor

The Osiris Shroud of Nesenaset and some Canopic Jars

The Royal Scribe Senenu Grinding Grain

The Royal Scribe Senenu Grinding Grain

The Royal Scribe Senenu Grinding Grain

The Wilbour Plaque

Three Rishi Coffins

Three Rishi Coffins

Three Shabtis of Setau

Three Shabtis of Setau

Three Shabtis of Setau

Tile Fragment with Mandragora Leaves & Flowers

Tomb Goods from the Tomb of Ramose & Hatnofer

Tomb Goods from the Tomb of Ramose & Hatnofer

Tomb Relief Showing the Force Feeding of Cattle

Torso of Akhenaten

Two Alabaster Shabti with the Throne Names of Siptah

Two Faience Tiles with the Throne Names of Seti II

Two Halves of a Knife Handle

Two Halves of a Knife Handle

Two Princesses Each Holding a Sistrum & An Ankh Facing Their Enthroned Parents Amenhotep III and Tiye

Upper Part of the Statue of an Official

Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse

White Limestone Statuette of the Scribe, Huy

Wood & Ivory Chair

Wooden Cosmetics Box

Wooden Cosmetics Box from Tomb of Sennedjem

Wooden Face from an Anthropoid Coffin

Wooden Shabti Belonging to Ramesses II

Wooden Shabti Belonging to Ramesses II

Wooden Shabti Belonging to Ramesses II

Wooden Spoon with a Jackal Handle

Wooden Spoon with a Jackal Handle

Wooden Statuette of a Woman

Wooden Statuette of Amenhotep III

Wooden Statuette of Amenhotep III

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