Jewelry element: faience, carnelian, white stone beads
[Faience, carnelian, white stone] beads.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-585
- Alternate IDs
- 12-12-585; HUMFA_12-12-585
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepy II
- Entry Date
- 12/31/1912
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience, carnelian, white stone beads
- Medium
- [Faience, carnelian, white stone]
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2381 A, [chamber, in coffin, on left wrist of mummy] (512, 513)
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 100-101, cat. 38c.
- Remarks
- MFA 13.3415 = 2 carnelian and 5 faience barrel beads. MFA 13.3422 = quantity of carnelian and white stone barrel beads and electrum (?) ball beads.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified