About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 50
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Department
- Arts of Africa
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Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
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Title
- Mortar and Pestle
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Place
- Egypt (Object made in)
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Date
- 1985 BCE–1773 BCE
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Medium
- Mortar: baked steatite; pestle: granite
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Dimensions
- Mortar (a): 2 × 7.4 × 13.5 cm (3/4 × 2 7/8 × 5 5/16 in.); Pestle (b): 3.1 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm (1 1/4 × 1 1/16 × 1 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Henry H. Getty, Norman W. Harris, and Charles L. Hutchinson
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Reference Number
- 1894.668a-b
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/136378/manifest.json
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