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Painted cow skull (bucranium)
Painted cow skull (bucranium)

Painted cow skull (bucranium)

about 1700–1550 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueBone and pigment
DimensionsHeight x width: 16 x 116 cm (6 5/16 x 45 11/16 in.)
Credit LineEmily Esther Sears Fund
Accession number03.1957
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsOrganic remains
ProvenanceSaid to be from Khizam (near Luxor). 1903: purchased for the MFA from Mohamed Mohassib, Luxor, Egypt by Albert M. Lythgoe as part of a group (03.1956, 03.1957, 03.1960, RES.03.8-RES.03.10) for £3.
(Accession Date: September 22, 1993)