Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Eye inlay from a coffin
Nubian
Napatan Period, reign of unknown ruler
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Meroe, Beg. S. Mastaba LXVI
Medium/Technique
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Dimensions
0.8 x 1.7 x 4.8 cm (5/16 x 11/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number21.11950
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsTomb equipment – Coffins and sarcophagi
DescriptionMummy eye, slight green stains on one bevelled edge (from bronze?), roughened oval (flat) marks place where iris was attached.
ProvenanceFrom Beg. South, Mastaba LXVI. 1921: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.