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Object Number 15-12-50/B1152
Display Title Bone awl - 17 Dyn.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Organic, bone perforator, tapered to pointed end, tip broken
Classification
  • Perforator
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Seventeenth Dynasty
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sudan / Dongola / <County> / <City> / Kerma
Intrasite KX, Grave K 1045
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 11.4 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm (4 1/2 x 5/8 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B1152; 1105
Provenance
Collector George A. Reisner (1913)
Expedition Harvard University- Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1913)
Lender Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1915)
Donor Donated by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1929)

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