Gold Flakes
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MEDIUM
Gold
DATES
ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 12
PERIOD
Middle Kingdom
DIMENSIONS
Bag: 6 1/2 × 4 7/16 × 3/16 in. (16.5 × 11.3 × 0.5 cm)
Avg flake size: 1/4 × 1/8 × 1/16 in. (0.6 × 0.3 × 0.1 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
14.744.1
CREDIT LINE
Museum Collection Fund
PROVENANCE
Tomb 92, Harageh, Egypt; 1914, excavated by William Flinders Petrie for the British School of Archaeology, London, England; January 21, 1915, purchased from the British School of Archaeology by the Brooklyn Museum.
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