- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shell (Cleopatra bulimoides?). [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/8/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Nubia Dongola Sanam
- Cultural groups
- Nubian
- Date / Period
- Date made: 700-500 BC
- Date collected
- 1913
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1921
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.75.24 Other numbers: 440
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