Jewelry: copper bands
At least three, possibly four or more, copper bands, five rounded end pieces with hole in center preserved; copper covered with layer of fine cloth, thin layer of paste or plaster, and gold leaf, most fragments flat or only very slightly curved, except two bent rounded end pieces with holes (5 cm and 7 cm long respectively); most of copper in very corroded and fragile state (exact length cannot be ascertained).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: section: 5:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-2-462b
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-2-462b; 27-2-462b
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Miscellaneous
- Entry Date
- 02/09/1927
- Title
- Jewelry: copper bands
- Medium
- Gilded copper
- Dimensions
- Width: 2.7 - 2.9 cm Length: longest piece: 19+ cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7143 B, chamber, in wood coffin
- Bibliography
- Aldred, Cyril. Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewellery of the Dynastic Period. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971, p. 182, no. 16. Dunham, Dows "An Egyptian Diadem of the Old Kingdom." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 44, No. 255 (1946), pp. 23-29. Wilkinson, Alix. Ancient Egyptian Jewellery. London: Methuen, 1971, pp. 39, 46, fig. 27. Cf. Bissing, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von. Ägyptische Kunstgeschichte von den Ältesten Zeiten vis auf die Eroberung Durch die Araber: Systematisches Handbuch. Berlin-Charlottenburg: M. Goldstein, 1934, pp. 203-204. Cf. Keimer, Ludwig. "Pendeloques En Forme D'insectes Faisant Partie De Colliers Égyptiens." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 31 (1931), p. 147.
- Remarks
- One copper band accessioned as MFA 37.606b. Other assorted gold foil and copper fragments MFA owned (unaccessioned).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
