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Title:Necklace pendants and beads
Period:late Old Babylonian
Date:ca. 17th–16th century BCE
Geography:Mesopotamia, said to be from Dilbat
Culture:Babylonian
Medium:Gold
Dimensions:D: 2.3 cm
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1947
Accession Number:47.1i
Ca. 1911, known and possibly purchased by Ernst Herzfeld, near Tell al-Deylam (ancient Dilbat); by 1914, collection of Frida and/or Georg Hahn, Berlin, who most probably acquired it from Ernst Herzfeld; 1939, left on deposit at the British Museum by the Hahn family; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from Charlotte Weidler, New York, on behalf of Georg Hahn.
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