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Source Description
This pendant has the same pattern of circular dots with eyes that many box ornaments and spindle whorls found in Egypt have. Part of the tail is chipped.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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31569
label
Fish
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object
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1
Source metadata
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31569
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object
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normalized
title
Fish
description
This pendant has the same pattern of circular dots with eyes that many box ornaments and spindle whorls found in Egypt have. Part of the tail is chipped.
provenance
Gimbel Brothers, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by purchase.
date
4th-7th century
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CC0
language
en
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Ivory & Bone
pendants (jewelry)
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)
Source extras
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Late Antique
style
Coptic
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bone
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6182
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MED
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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