fitting
- Museum number
- EA18545
- Description
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Dark-green (traces of) glazed composition hemispherical fitting, underside hollow except for central bands, each pierced for attachment.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.18 centimetres (max)
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Thickness: 1.04 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Very probably one of the "disks of porcelain pierced with three of four small holes, or, like buttons, with pierced cross bars at the back" mentioned by W.M.F. Petrie, Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh, p. 42 § 38; see also EA 18541, 18454, 18548.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (worn)
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA18545
- Registration number
- 1887,0101.105