Jewelry element: faience beads
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2382, G 2384, G 2382, G 2385, G 2374, G 2224, G 2330 = G 5380, G 2375, G 2412
Lot of faience ring and cylinder beads; blue glaze // a few fragments of gold foil.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-1-527
- Alternate IDs
- 13-1-527; HUMFA_13-1-527
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- January 1913
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience, gold
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2224 A
- Remarks
- Necklace composed of 1126 faience beads (1040 ring beads, 86 cylinder beads) accessioned as MFA 13.3404.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified