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Object ID |
12857.1 |
Object Name |
Gemstone |
Other Name |
Coral |
Other Stanford number |
12857 |
Date |
1700-1850 |
Material |
Coral |
Description |
Rough, squat, spherical piece of coral with white adhesive accretions attached. Loss from 12857 assigned suffix for laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy. |
Dimensions |
H-0.263 Dia-0.389 cm |
Found |
Africa; North Africa; Upper Nile |
Place of Origin (if different than Found) |
Africa; North Africa; Upper Nile |
Provenance |
Gift of Jane Stanford, donated to the Leland Stanford Junior Museum before 1905. Possibly collected during one of Jane Stanford's two trips to Egypt. |
Collector |
Stanford, Jane L. |
Collection |
Anthropology; Africa |
Search Terms |
Egypt North Africa Inlay gem stones rubies coral turquoise silver military semi-precious stone |
Web Export Search |
Anthropology 117A |