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Mud jar sealing Tarkhan

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 12.187.45. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 12.187.45
Find spot: Tarkhan, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic, Late Naqada III–Early Dynastic Period
Date: ca. 3200–2650 B.C.
Date range: 3200 BCE – 2650 BCE
Materials: ['clay', 'mud']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Mud jar sealing (12.187.45). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/214546

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Sealing, jar. Predynastic, Late Naqada III–Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3200–2650 B.C. Clay, mud. From: Tomb 414, Tarkhan, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE excavations 1911-1913. Credit: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912.

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Found at Tarkhan

Materials Mud

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