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Object Number 15-12-50/B1362
Display Title Potsherd
Descriptions
Object Description Potsherd
Inventory Description Ceramic body sherd, brown, incised wide zigzag with impressed triangles
Classification
  • Sherd
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Twelfth Dynasty
  • Seventeenth Dynasty
  • Nubian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Sudan / Dongola / <County> / <City> / Kerma
Intrasite KI. - (Lower Deffufa) debris
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 10.1 x 11.4 x 0.9 cm (4 x 4 1/2 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B/1362; Su/200
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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