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Object NameHead Inlay
Made FromGlass
Date25 BCE-99 CE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquecast, recut
SizeOverall H: 2.8 cm, W: 1.8 cm, Th: 0.6 cm
Accession Number64.1.51
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionOpaque red glass, heavily pitted and weathered, strain cracked and dull; cast, possibly recut. Inlay of a man's head facing left, entire surface badly eroded, perhaps by sand, eye, ear and mouth possibly retouched by cutting after casting, back shows flow lines of glass.
Provenance
Source Mohamed abd El Rahim el Chaer - 1964

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