2 Bags of Chips and Shreds from Mosaic Glass Shrine

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2 Bags of Chips and Shreds from Mosaic Glass Shrine

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Object Name: 
2 Bags of Chips and Shreds from Mosaic Glass Shrine
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Accession Number: 
59.1.94 T
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
299 BCE-99 CE
Primary Description: 
2 Bags of Chips and Shreds from Mosaic Glass Shrine. An assortment of chips and shreds, among them two tubular faience beads, five small shreds of opaque turquoise glass, four pieces of translucent deep blue glass two of which are half-round buttons, the other two are almost certainly from a small inlay figure of the god Bes, one being his arm, the other his crown with a fleck of gold foil on back. Seventeen chips and slivers of various opaque colors and cane splinters.
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Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
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