Images(4)

Group shot: 19.1539, 03.1613, 19.1543, 19.1564, 19.1567a-d, 19.1568, 19.1561, 19.1562, 19.1566

Diamond-shaped palette

3100–3000 B.C.

FindspotEgypt

Medium/TechniqueQuartz

DimensionsWidth x length: 2.5 x 6 cm (1 x 2 3/8 in.)

Credit LineArchaeological Survey of Nubia

Accession number19.1562

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsTools and equipment

Collections

Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East

ProvenanceFrom Seyala (ASN137/3/10). 1911. Excavated by Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition for the Archaeological Survey of Nubia; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the Egyptian government.

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Tablet

Naqada I–III, 3850–2960 B.C.

Palette

3100–3000 B.C.

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Four kiln setters or amulets

2400–1550 B.C.

Head end from an anthropoid coffin

1991–1783 B.C., or later

Group shot: 13.3144, 13.3252, 13.3257, 13.3269, 13.3263, 13.3265, 13.3266, 28.1148

"Opening of the Mouth" cup

2246–2152 B.C.

"Opening of the Mouth" cup

2246–2152 B.C.

"Opening of the Mouth" jar

2246–2152 B.C.

Recumbent lion

305–30 B.C.

Round-bottomed dish fragment with incised decoration

2960–2770 B.C.