| Object Number | 29-221-552 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Egypt | Sudan |
| Culture Area | North Africa |
| Date Made | 1869-1870 |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Ostrich Shell |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Description | triangular fragment of ostrich egg shell; thick. A standing figure is flanked by two smaller fitures, one of which has a tail, the other of which seems to have a beak. Demons? The top of the piece has an etched pattern, and the two sides of a "gilded?" band |
| Length | 9.7 cm |
| Width | 9.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 552 - Sommerville Number |
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