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Decorated iron bell

A.D. 140–155
FindspotMeroe, Nubia, Sudan
Country of Origin, for CustomsSudan
Medium/TechniqueBronze, iron
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 8.6 × 8.8 cm (3 3/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number24.857a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
ProvenanceFrom Meroe, Pyr. N 29; March. 1921, excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.