Jewelry element: faience beads
Necklace elements: c) black, white, and blue-green faience ring beads.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_36-4-80c
- Alternate IDs
- 36-4-80c; HUMFA_36-4-80c
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 04/30/1936
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Sandstone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2 - 3 mm Thickness: 1 - 2 mm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2407 C, coffin pit
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "Old Kingdom Beaded Collars." In Jacke Phillips with Lanny Bell, Bruce B. Williams, James Hoch and Ronald J. Leprohon (eds.) Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East. Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, Volume 1. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1997, p. 156, notes 117, 120. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 67.
- Remarks
- MFA 37.1314: broadcollar reconstructed from elements 36-4-80a, 36-4-80b, and 36-4-80c, and modern gilded wood terminals.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
