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Unguent Spoon

1914.05.0025

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Artifact Identification Unguent Spoon   (1914.05.0025)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Toilet Articles
    3. :
  3. Hygiene Artifacts
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Ptolemaic?
Date 305 – 30 BCE
Culture Egyptian
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 18.0 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 1.4 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 0.5 cm
Weight 15 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Metal--Bronze
Manufacturing Processes Forging--Cold

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

The British Museum. Antinoupolis at the British Museum Online Catalog. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/antinoupolis.aspx

Griffith Institute Archives, University of Oxford. John de Monins Johnson photographic negatives. http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4johnson.html

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, Henry Maguire and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction No

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