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E8080
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E8080 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G 572 |
| Date Made | 100 BCE-300 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Iron |
| Description | Engraved. Image on the bezel represents a hieracosphinx laying down, facing left, wearing the double crown. Above the back is a rising sun over an horizon hieroglyph. |
| Height | 2.2 cm |
| Width | 1.5 cm |
| Depth | 2.1 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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