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Grain

5th millennium B.C.
FindspotMerimde Beni Salama, Egypt
Medium/TechniqueGrain
Credit LineGift of Albert Rothbart
Accession number33.428
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsOrganic remains
ProvenanceFrom Merimda Beni Salama. 1938-32, Vienna Academy Excavations; 1933; given to the MFA by Albert Rothbart through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
(Accession Date: May 1, 1933)
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Mummy of a crocodile
332 B.C.–A.D. 200
Painted cow skull (bucranium)
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Yellow shell
1700–1550 B.C.
Fish bone
1700–1550 B.C.
Mummy of a cat
305–30 B.C.
mummy of a kitten
305–30 B.C.
mummy of a dog
305–30 B.C.
Mummified snakes
305–30 B.C.
Mummy of a kitten
30 B.C.–A.D. 200