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Hair

2400–1550 B.C.
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Object Place for LabelKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueHair
DimensionsLengths: 4.38 cm (1 3/4 in.), 5.0 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number15-3-52a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsOrganic remains
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, LIV, K5424. 1915: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
Hair, rug-cloth, etc. 14-2-867 (=MFA 20.1483), 13-12-975 (giraffe hair) (=MFA 20.1491), 14-3-10…
about 1700–1550 B.C.
about 1700–1550 B.C.
2400–1550 B.C.
about 1700–1550 B.C.
2400–1550 B.C.
Mummy of a crocodile
332 B.C.–A.D. 200
5th millennium B.C.
Conical loaf of bread
1550–1295 B.C.