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.