Fly ornament
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Object PlaceKerma, Nubia, Sudan
FindspotKerma, Nubia, Sudan
Medium/TechniqueIvory
DimensionsOverall: 6.5 x 0.9 x 13.9 cm (2 9/16 x 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number20.1775b
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, tomb K 325. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, February 1914; 1920: assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
1550–1295 B.C.
Badarian to Naqada III, 4500–2960 B.C.
2nd–1st century B.C.
332–50 B.C.
30 B.C.–A.D. 364
2926–2880 B.C.