Knob with Incised Decoration

14th-13th century BCE

1.7 cm 2 cm 1.1 cm

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This thick conical piece has a dowel hole in the narrow end. Incised on the wide faces are "sacred trees" composed of tendrils and papyrus stalks. On the edges are lotus blossoms.

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17674
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object
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MacGregor Collection [lot 679]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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4
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Terms

संस्कृति
Canaanite?
माध्यम
elephant ivory

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