Faience Flail Parts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Nov 1964
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Human-scale, maybe part of an individual's funerary equipment?
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for one flail with this number (# 1 of 2), 2011: Ceremonial flail c. 1400 BC or later. Paired with a crook, the flail symbolized royal authority and identified the deceased with Osiris, divine king of the dead.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Green, white, blue, black, etc."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 257506
label: USNM Number
content: A440005-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flail