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Cosmetic Container

Spoon

Object Number:E6935A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Egypt
Abydos
Locus: Tomb M1
Period: Egyptian Early Dynastic
First Dynasty
Date Made: 3000-2800 BCE
Early Date: -3001
Late Date: -2799
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Ivory
Iconography:Duck
Height: 3.81 cm
Length: 8.89 cm
Width: 3.17 cm
Credit Line:Distribution from the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900
Other Number:AES 1751 - Other Number

Description

Duck shaped spoon and cosmetic box.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) View Objects in Exhibition
Lower Egyptian Gallery (1996 - 2018) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Patch, Diana C. 2011. The Dawn of Egyptian Art.. New Haven. Yale University Press. pg. 275 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 178,179/cat.164View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[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. 76, fig. 48View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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