id:			94141
accession number:	1914.685
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.685
updated:		2025-02-08 22:09:27.853000

Seal Amulet, 2311–2124 BCE. Egypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasties 6–8. Bone; diameter: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.685

title:				Seal Amulet
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creation date:			2311–2124 BCE
creation date earliest:		-2311
creation date latest:		-2124
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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: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 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: 	no. 200
	url:		https://archive.org/details/ERA38/page/n29/mode/2up?q=300.14

	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. 10, no. 200
	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. 150; Mentioned: p. 150
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