Falcon wearing a Double Crown, Late Middle Kingdom–Second Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 12–Dynasty 17, ca. 1850–1550

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Falcon wearing a Double Crown, Late Middle Kingdom–Second Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 12–Dynasty 17, ca. 1850–1550 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Tomb, pit in portico, 1912–13, Electrum over plaster, H. x Th. cm (3 7/16 x 3/16 in.), This piece of jewelry was found in the plundered chamber reached by a shaft in the portico of a rock-cut tomb in the Asasif section of the Theban necropolis. Among the finds were parts of a rectangular wooden coffin with green hieroglyphs on a yellow background as well as a few remains of one or more model wooden boat(s), three scarabs

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