Jewelry element: faience beads
Four pill boxes (two boxes 9 cm in diameter and 4 cm in height; two boxes 10.2 cm in diameter and 4.2 cm in height) full of faience cylinder and ring beads, probably from bead garment; faded blue-green glaze.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_33-3-34
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_33-3-34; 33-3-34
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 03/19/1933
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Length: cylinder beads: 3 - 3.2 cm Diameter: cylinder beads: 3 - 4 mm; ring beads: 4 - 5 mm Thickness: 3 - 4 mm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2342 (= G 5520) D, debris of chamber
- Remarks
- G 2342 = G 5520; pits G 2342 XYZ = G 5522. MFA 33.1020.1 = beadnet dress reconstructed from beads from 33-3-34 and floral pendants from 33-3-35a (reconstructed by Sheila Shear 2001); MFA 33.1020.2 = bead broadcollar reconstructed from beads from 33-3-34 and terminals from 33-3-35b (reconstructed by Sheila Shear 2003); MFA 33.1133 = cylinder and ring beads not used in reconstruction of dress and collar.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified