Valve of a bivalve shell (cockle or mussel), partly ground and perforated near the hinge for use as a pendant. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/8/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Valve of a bivalve shell (cockle or mussel), partly ground and perforated near the hinge for use as a pendant. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/8/2005]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; 30 miles south of Asyut Qau el Kebir
Person: Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie; Field collector British School of Archaeology in Egypt; PRM source British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Predynastic, uncertain Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Early Dynastic, uncertain
Date collected: 1922 - 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Mussel Shell, Process Ground, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Diameter: max 50 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.43.39 Other numbers: 23/ 444
Research and responses: In 1894 Flinders Petrie founded an organisation known as the Egyptian Research Account to support archaeological fieldwork in Egypt; in 1905, this became the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE), which sponsored his work at Qau [RTS 18/1/2005].
Associated publications: Bruton, G. and Caton-Thompson, G. 1928: The Badarian Civilization and Predynastic Remains near Badari (London, British School of Archaeology in Egypt 46).

Search terms: Animalia, Shell

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