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Game Piece

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Object Number:E1147
Current Location: Egypt (Mummies Gallery)
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Provenience: Egypt
Ballas
Locus: Grave Q711
Period: Egyptian Predynastic Period
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Steatite
Iconography:Hare
Credit Line:Distribution from the Egyptian Research Account; William Flinders Petrie, 1895
Other Number:ES1147 - Original Number

Description

Hare. E1116 - E1158 are from one Tomb.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895) View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (1996 - 2006) View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (2006) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 24, fig. 7View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue] Culin, Robert S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia 1895.. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 814 ffView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Petrie, William M. 1895. Naqada and Ballas.. : Page/Fig./Plate: 14+35View Objects related to this

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