Jewelry: faience bead broadcollar
Necklace of blue glazed and ordinary [faience] beads
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-32
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-32; 14-1-32
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 01/04/1914, 01/06/1914, 01/10/1914
- Title
- Jewelry: faience bead broadcollar
- Medium
- [Faience]
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 4631, shafts A, B, C
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 498.
- Remarks
- MFA 24.1751: reconstructed broadcollar: two terminals of grey-green faience (width 5.2 cm), twenty-seven flower petal pendants of blue faience with black markings, thirty-seven small ring and cylinder beads, group of faience cylinder beads of various sizes, part of original broad collar; strung with modern cylinder beads (ABS plastic tubing) and two rows of small beads made of Fimo modeling compound (reconstruction by Sheila Shear 1992).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified