Jewelry element: copper bell-shaped pendants
Four copper bell-shaped pendants, covered with gold foil.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-2-462e
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-2-462e; 27-2-462e
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
- Entry Date
- 02/09/1927
- Title
- Jewelry element: copper bell-shaped pendants
- Medium
- Copper
- Dimensions
- Height: 3.2 cm Diameter: 25 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.