Spoon with Animals

mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)

1.5 cm 12.2 cm 0.7 cm

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This miniature spoon with a double-curved end is decorated with a grazing boar on a plinth shown in relief. Over the bowl, a gazelle's head with large eyes is seen "en face" in relief.Spoons are common in the Predynastic period, but the figures carved on this piece are unusual...

Artifact

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21870
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object
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normalized
provenance
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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1
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Medium
bone
Genre
spoons

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