inlay
- Museum number
- EA16598
- Description
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Two mosaic slices joined: assembled from two slices of different canes to form a female head, frontal. Mounted on a thin slice of modern glass. The field is of translucent green glass.
- Production date
- 1stC BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
Sale Catalogue, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier Collection, Paris, 6 February-21 March 1865, no. 1363.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 1363 at sale.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16598
- Registration number
- 1865,0326.2