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Jar, fragments Meroitic PeriodFaras

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 26.4.132a–e. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 26.4.132a–e
Find spot: Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan) approx. site location
Period: Meroitic Period
Date: 270 B.C.–A.D. 320
Date range: 270 BCE – 320 CE
Materials: ['glass']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Jar, fragments (26.4.132a–e). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/214619

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Meroitic Period, 270 B.C.–A.D. 320. Glass. From: Cemetery 1, Grave 1504, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1910–1912. Credit: Gift of Oxford University Expedition to Nubia, 1926.

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