Jewelry element: steatite and faience beads
[One hundred seventeen (117)] steatite [and faience] cylinder beads [(Old Kingdom)]; [thirty-nine (39) speckled steatite, seventy-eight (78) blue faience].
Illustration: No.
Supplementary illustration: Yes.
Supplementary illustration scale: 2:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-7-14
- Alternate IDs
- 25-7-14; HUMFA_25-7-14
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 07/10/1925
- Title
- Jewelry element: steatite and faience beads
- Medium
- Steatite, [faience]
- Dimensions
- Diameter: .5 - .9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7803 C, inside coffin
- Remarks
- Thirty-eight (38) speckled steatite cylinder beads accessioned as MFA 25.2726.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified