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Piece of a molusk shell

820–800 B.C.
Findspotel-Kurru, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueShell
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number19.2103
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsOrganic remains
ProvenanceFrom Nubia (Sudan) el-Kurru, Ku. 14. 1919: 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.

(Accession date: January 7, 2005)
Yellow shell
1700–1550 B.C.
Naqada I–III, 3850–2960 B.C.
Shell
Naqada I–III, 3850–2960 B.C.
2323–2040 B.C.
Bivalve shell
2040–1640 B.C.
about 690–664 B.C.
750–250 B.C.