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Grain husks

about 1700–1550 B.C.
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Object Place for LabelKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueGrain
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number14.1604
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsOrganic remains
ProvenanceFrom Nubia, Kerma, Tumulus 10, 1088. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
5th millennium B.C.
Mummy of a crocodile
332 B.C.–A.D. 200
Conical loaf of bread
1550–1295 B.C.
Mummy of an ibis
30 B.C.–A.D. 364
Mummy of an ibis
Roman Imperial, 30 B.C.–A.D 364
760 B.C.–A.D. 100
30 B.C.–A.D. 364