Title: Tridacna shell
Object type: Shell
Date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Culture: Edomite
Period: Iron Age
Medium: Shell (Tridacna squamosa)
Dimensions: 3.33 x 4.29 in. (8.46 x 10.9 cm)
Credit line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977
Geography:      Levant Tawilan    
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY