where to find

Storeroom

Jewellery box

Category:

Containers and related objects, boxes

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period (323-31 BCE)

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Fayoum, Umm El-Brigat (Tebtonis/Tebtunis) (excavations of the Ifao and the University of Milan, 1997 season)

Material(s):

Organic material, wood

Height:

10 cm;

Length:

23.5 cm;

Width:

12.6 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References

Claudio Gallazzi, “Lo scavo di una discarica a Umm-el-Breigât (Tebtynis), ovvero, le sorprese del pattume”, NAC 27 (1998): 196-197, fig. 9.
Claudio Gallazzi and Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou, Trésors inattendus: 30 ans de fouilles et de coopération à Tebtynis (Fayoum), Bibliothèque générale 57 (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2019): 175, no. 102.

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