Hollow piece of finished wood, cut at a slant at both ends. The wood surface has alternating dark and light diagonal bands. Pen cases such as this were frequently treasured objects belonging to scribes. This box still contains its original reed pen, with its nib cut to specifications of the script for which it was last used. The built-in metal inkwell could be a later modification by the box's owner, one that required that the pen be shortened to fit inside the box..
Wood fragments; geometric and linear designs in low relief.Muscarella Publication: "Same as above, left. A damaged motif appears at the left. The lower border is decorated with triangular cut-outs"
Cylinder seal in hard wood, with stylized representations of a frog and other aquatic creatures, boldly incised between a single line obrder, above and below.
Condition: In four fragments, rejoined. One portion of the surface of the cylinder is lacking.