Nubian Cylinder Sheath This small silver sheath made about 520 B.C.E., perhaps for a dagger, shows a winged goddess on one side and the Egyptian god Amon-Ra (not visible in this photograph) on the other. It and others like it were found in the tombs of the king of Kush and suggest ways that Egyptian artistic styles and religious ideas influenced cultures farther up the Nile. (Cylinder sheath of Amani-natake-lebte, Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of King Amani-natake-lebte, 538–519 B.C.E. Findspot: Sudan, Nubia, Nuri, Pyramid 10. Gilded silver, colored paste inclusions. Height by diameter: 12 x 3.1 cm. (4 3⁄4 x 1 1⁄4 in.). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 20.275. Photograph © 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)