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Tarkhan Tomb 1277 (burial of a child)

Dating: early First Dynasty (about 3000 BC) or a little bit later

Petrie: Sequence Date 78 (see the publication about the date of this burial and the pottery types)

Finds: 2 pots (88e-right, 91e-left), a cosmetic palette, beads with two ends of a broad collar and shell armlets
(the necklace is not drawn on the tomb card, the position is here reconstructed)

Petrie 1914: pl. XXXIX (tomb register); the pottery types: 88e (pl. XXXI, ) , 91e (Petrie 1913: pl. LVIII)

Measurements: 66 x 101 x279 cm

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