Ivory Hairpin
Ivory Hairpin
Place of OriginEgypt, Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna)
Date18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
DimensionsL: 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm)
MediumIvory.
ClassificationUtilitarian Objects
Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society
Object number
1925.736
Not on View
DescriptionFrom Amarna. Excavator's number 1016.
Label TextThis ivory hairpin was excavated in 1923–1924 by the Egypt Exploration Society at Amarna, Pharaoh Akhenaten’s capital city. It was distributed to the Toledo Museum of Art through the EES’s formal division of finds, which placed carefully documented excavated material into major museum collections.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
Edo Period (1603-1868)
Edo Period (1603-1868)
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400 BCE
16th–18th Dynasties (1650–1292 BCE)
12th–18th Dynasties (1991–1292 BCE)
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