AR / ITEM / 00100176
Duck Head Earrings of Tutankhamun
Ancient Egyptian · maker unknown
Elaborate gold earrings with quartz disks, royal portraits, uraei and blue-glass duck heads, made for the pierced ears of Tutankhamun.
- Date
- New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
- Collection
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Reference
- 485
Plate not recorded
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Record
- Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
- Medium
- Gold; quartz; glass
- Dimensions
- Height 11.9 cm; width 2.2 cm; length 5.3 cm
- Origin
- Egypt
In the Tapestry
- Culture of origin
- Ancient EgyptA
- Culture of origin
- Egyptian EmpireA
Provenance and history
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
CreatedA
Sources
- A
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