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Fragments of a cylinder sheath

about 550 B.C.
Object PlaceNuri, Nubia, Sudan
Medium/TechniqueGold/electrum
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number18-3-109
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsUnclassifiable objects
ProvenanceFrom Nuri pyr. 27 room B. 1918: 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.
568–555 B.C.
about 712–698 B.C.
Silver cylinder
263 B.C.–A.D. 248
Electrum fragments
463–435 B.C.
probably 555–542 B.C.
593–568 B.C.