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Mirror handle

Plain wooden mirror handle, with round base, narrow circular stem widening towards top, hole in top in which tang of mirror was set. Decoration of four incised lines around stem just above base.

Plain wooden mirror handle, with round base, narrow circular stem widening towards top, hole in top in which tang of mirror was set. Decoration of four incised lines around stem just above base.

Object Mirror handle
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery D, North Section
Period Dynasty XVIII; Tuthmosis III
Material Wood
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1900.54:26
Copyrights Bolton Council