Thick paint-brush made from fine fibres of vegetal material

(not identified) held together by twists of a thin rope (also of vegetal material).

The brush end is stained with red pigment.

Africa: Egypt: Qena (Governorate): Luxor West Bank (Thebes): Deir el-Bahri (Thebes)

Dimensions: Length: 10.50 centimetres; Width: 4.20 centimetres; For a range of brushes from Deir el-Medina, including forms similar to EA 41186, see Les artistes de pharaon (exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2002), 201 [151]
The brush comes from Naville's excavations in the 11th dynasty temple at Deir el-Bahri, during which much later material (particularly of New Kingdom date, but also as late as the 8th century AD) was