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Source Description
This fragment of a comb has decorative projections on the top, the uppermost of which is broken off. The quick sketch of a long-horned, long-eared animal of the antelope family incised on one side is unusual.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
40617
label
Comb Fragment with a Depiction of a Horned Quadruped
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
40617
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Comb Fragment with a Depiction of a Horned Quadruped
description
This fragment of a comb has decorative projections on the top, the uppermost of which is broken off. The quick sketch of a long-horned, long-eared animal of the antelope family incised on one side is unusual.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
combs (grooming tools)
fragments
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Source extras
med
bone
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
PRE
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b9cf66536941214f