Fragment Of Altar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jan 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George W. Samson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Black granite. From the ruins in the valley running East from the Delta of Amalia, the spot now identified as Pythene."
label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with artifact: "Fragment of an altar of black granite. From the ruins in the valley running east from the Delta to Ismaili'a [Ismailia], identified by some as the Biblical Pithom. Egypt. Collected by Dr. Geo. W. Samson."
label: Notes
content: The valley referenced on the card and exhibit label may be Wadi Tumilat. Edouard Naville and Flinders Petrie were looking for Pithom along the Wadi Tumilat. In the spring of 1883, Naville believed he had identified Pithom as the archaeological site Tell El Maskhuta. The site of Pithom, as identified by Naville, is at the eastern edge of Wadi Tumilat, southwest of Ismailia. (Source: Wikipedia contributors, "Pithom," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pithom&oldid=774394345 (accessed May 31, 2017).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015674
label: USNM Number
content: A74855-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Altar