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Spoon Early Dynastic PeriodTarkhan

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Accession: 12.187.30
Find spot: Tarkhan, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Early Dynastic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 1
Reign: reign of Narmer or Horaha
Date: ca. 3100–2649 B.C.
Date range: 3100 BCE – 2649 BCE
Materials: ['ivory']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Spoon (12.187.30). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/215877

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Early Dynastic Period, Dynasty 1, reign of Narmer or Horaha, ca. 3100–2649 B.C. Ivory. L. 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.). From: Tomb 474, 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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