Quartz Cup, Fluted Sides
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1940
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hon. Hoffman Philip
label: Site Name
content: Luxor (not certain)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Believed to date from XVIIIth Dynasty. Purchased in Luxor."
label: Notes
content: Dish, fluted rock crystal? Possibly used as pot stand? Dr. Betsy M. Bryan, Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University had never seen such an object, though has no reason to suspect non-Egyptian. Kathleen Gordon suggested this is perhaps pre-dynastic or early Dynastic?, and Dr. Bryan concurred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Qena (not certain), Upper Egypt (not certain), 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: 156677
label: USNM Number
content: A382091-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup