Jewelry: necklace of faience beads
Necklace [(choker)] of [faience] beads.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-89
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-89; HUMFA_14-1-89
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 01/30/1914, 01/31/1914
- Title
- Jewelry: necklace of faience beads
- Medium
- [Faience]
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4341 A, shaft
- 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, p. 70, cat. 18.
- Remarks
- MFA 24.1749a: reconstructed choker (two faience terminals with fitting spacers, six white spacers of zigzag form, various other beads of different types and shapes); MFA 24.1749b: leftover beads from reconstruction of choker, three types of beads (dark blue ring beads, light blue barrel beads, dark blue barrel beads).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified