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accession number:	1914.684
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Seal Amulet, 2311–2140 BCE. Egypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasties 6–8. Bone; diameter: 2.6 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.684

title:				Seal Amulet
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creation date:			2311–2140 BCE
creation date earliest:		-2311
creation date latest:		-2140
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creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Egypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasties 6–8
technique:	bone
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Old Kingdom
type:		Amulets
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measurements: Diameter: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Purchased in Egypt by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
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CITATIONS

	Petrie, W. M. Flinders. <em>Buttons and Design Scarabs Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London. </em>London: British school of archaeology in Egypt, 1925.
	page number: 	p. 816
	url:		https://archive.org/details/ERA38

	Wiese, André. <em>Die Anfänge der ägyptischen Stempelsiegel-Amulette: eine typologische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu den "Knopfsiegeln" und verwandten Objekten der 6. bis frühen 12. Dynastie. Freiburg</em>, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag, 1996.
	page number: 	pl. 39, no. 816
	url:		https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151989/1/Wiese_1996_Die_Anfaenge_der_aegyptischen_Stempelsiegel_Amulette.pdf

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 149; Mentioned: p. 149
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	Kritsky, Gene. The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt. 2015, 24.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 23-24, fig. 3.1
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