| Object Number | 2003-54-5 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Egypt |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leather | Shell |
| Technique | Sewn |
| Description | Land transportation: saddlebag/water bag. Large saddle bag, made of several pieces of plain leather sewn together and decorated with white shells, forming a container with rounded bottom and open top. Used to carry goods on camel back. Possibly a water bucket used by the Shadoof to lift water for irrigation. |
| Length | 71.5 cm |
| Width | 44 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1895.1.131 - Other Number |
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