inlay
- Museum number
- EA18349
- Description
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Inlay in the shape of the head of a bird: perhaps a falcon, facing left, in opaque blue-green glass. The circular depression for inlaying the eye is now empty. Just below the eye is a mosaic rosette. Convex surface now filmed tan.
- Production date
- 1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.14 centimetres (maximum)
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Width: 0.69 centimetres (maximum)
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie 'et al.', 'Tanis' II (1888), pl. XVIII, upper left (reversed).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA18349
- Registration number
- 1887,0101.392