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Bone comb with an antelope

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 23.2.8. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 23.2.8
Period: Predynastic, Late Naqada l–Naqada II
Date: ca. 3900–3500 B.C.
Date range: 3900 BCE – 3500 BCE
Materials: ['bone']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Bone comb with an antelope (23.2.8). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/24225

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Comb, antelope. Predynastic, Late Naqada l–Naqada II, ca. 3900–3500 B.C. Bone. h. 9.7 x w. 2.9 x d. 0.3 cm (3 13/16 x 1 1/8 x 1/8 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Animals. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.

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