Silver sheet imitation cowrie shells
[Six] [cowrie] shells in silver sheeting.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_29-12-240f (3)
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_29-12-240f (3); HUMFA_29-12-240f(3); 29-12-240f (3)
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Miscellaneous
- Entry Date
- [12/13/1929]
- Title
- Silver sheet imitation cowrie shells
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- Length: 1.25 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7762 S, small body in coffin, right wrist and fingers on right hand
- Notes
- Eight silver cowrie shells originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-240f (3); five in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (unaccessioned), two in Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_56966 and EMC_JE_56968), location of eighth unknown.
- Remarks
- Coffin and mummy (29-12-240) were removed from burial chamber on December 13 (see diary Vol.24.p.1000).