- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bitumen specimen in a box, from cemetery A.
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Predynastic
- Date collected
- By 1901
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1901
- Materials and processes
- Material Resin Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 102 mm box
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1901.29.135.3 Other numbers: A
- Associated publications
- Randall MacIver and Mace, A. (1902) El Amrah and Abydos 1899-1901. London: Egypt Exploration Society. [AS 07/06/2012]
Search terms: Specimen, Death, Religion, Geology, Mineral, Grave Good
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