Linen fragment
Unknown artist
Date: ca. 2880–2465 B.C.
Medium: Linen
Dimensions: Frame: 23 × 15.5 cm (9 1/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
Country: Egypt
Period: Early Dynastic Period–Old Kingdom
Gift of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1914
Date range
-2880 – -2465
Largest dimension
15.5 cm
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