Egg

B2892

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number B2892
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Period Parthian
Section Near Eastern
Materials Egg
Description

CBS Register: white egg with its hardened yolk in fragments. Found complete between two walls in Parthian ruin, but broken in route to Constantinople.

-(ostrich?) egg shell fragments; possible raw material for inlays

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I,1889
Other Number 785 - Field No SF

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