Eye inlays from a coffin

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Eye inlays from a coffin

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Third Intermediate period

Dynasty: Dynasty 21-24

Date: ca. 1069-664 B.C.

Medium: Bronze, travertine (Egyptian alabaster), obsidian or glass, and pigment

Dimensions:

each: 1 11/16 × 4 15/16 × 1 1/8 in. (4.3 × 12.6 × 2.9 cm)

Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection

Object number: 86.138.217.a-b

Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986

Published References C. C. Van Siclen, III, An Illustrated Checklist for Mummies, Myths and Magic (San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1990), p. 43, no. 6.

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Eye inlays from a coffin

Eye inlays from a coffin