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Quartzite

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6715

Geography

Place Made: Qau el-Kebir, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Processing

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Archaeologist’s label: 688 in blue pencil

Provenance

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (University College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.

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