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Furniture in Late Roman, Coptic and Islamic Egypt: bone inlays chests and boxes

Bone (and ivory) carvings; inlays for boxes

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unknown provenance

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UC 71151 UC 71152

Islamic Period

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Marangou 1976 (catalogue of the Roman bone carvings from Egypt in the Benaki Museum, Athens)


 

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