Sample of Grain from Merimda

Neolithic Period–Predynastic Period

ca. 4500–4000 B.C.

Not on view

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Title: Sample of Grain from Merimda
Period: Neolithic Period–Predynastic Period
Date: ca. 4500–4000 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Western Delta, Merimda Beni Salama, Vienna Academy of Science excavations 1929–30
Medium: Burned Grain
Credit Line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933
Object Number: 33.4.59
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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