Shell pendant or bead
Predynastic Period
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Title: Shell pendant or bead
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: ca. 3850–2960 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Shell
Credit Line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916
Accession Number: 16.7.42
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