Furniture Inlay

52.55.86

Information

Carved bone panel from a casket, with the image of a dancing girl holding a cymbal. Would originally have been enclosed in a bone bordering. Either found within a large ash-heap at Shurafa; or a grave at Scenas Mandras, a Ptolemaic Period cemetery three miles to the north of Shurafa (see Petrie and Mackay 1915 pp. 40-45).