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Hair or Dress Pin
Image Not Available for Hair or Dress Pin
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Hair or Dress Pin

AAT Object Form/Functiongems (worked stones)
AAT Object Form/Functionpins (jewelry)
Possible OriginAsia
CultureSumerian or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
PeriodEarly Bronze Age
Date3rd Millennium BCE
MediumBronze, carnelian, marble, other stone
Credit LineGift of Michael and Janet Schlossberg
Dimensions4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
Object number2002.025.001
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - February 12, 2018
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, December 2002 - February 2003.
ProvenanceEx private collection. Purchased by MCCM from Joseph Coplin (1965-2022) and Robin Beningson [Antiquarium, Ltd.], New York, New York.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art