Ivory button seal
Ivory button seal with frog [carved] on [back], seal incised on bottom, [two stick figure animals, perhaps crocodile and jackal]; pierced sidways.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-11-2
- Alternate IDs
- 12-11-2; HUMFA_12-11-2
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Seals, sealings & stoppers
- Period
- First Intermediate Period
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1912
- Title
- Ivory button seal
- Medium
- Ivory
- Dimensions
- Length: 16 mm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2320 (= G 5280) A, under skeleton
- Bibliography
- D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, pp. 96-98, cat. 29.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
