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Grain husks
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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.
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