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Hair Ornament

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Object Number:E1136
Current Location: Egypt (Mummies Gallery)
Currently On Display
Provenience: Egypt
Ballas
Period: Egyptian Predynastic Period
Date Made: 5000-3000 BCE
Early Date: -5001
Late Date: -2999
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Ivory
Technique:Incised
Iconography:Bird Head
Length: 16.3 cm
Outside Diameter:0.7 cm
Credit Line:Distribution from the Egyptian Research Account; William Flinders Petrie, 1895
Other Number:ES1136 - Original Number

Description

Tapering needle shape. Bird's head at top. Incised. E1116 - E1158 are from one Tomb.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Egyptian Mummies: Secrets and Science (27 Sep 1980 - 15 Feb 2016) 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

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