Jewelry element: faience bell-shaped pendants
Necklace elements: d) faience [bell-shaped] pendants with vertical hole.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_36-6-55d
- Alternate IDs
- 36-6-55d; HUMFA_36-6-55d
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 06/29/1936
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience bell-shaped pendants
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Height: 2 cm Diameter: top: .7 cm; bottom: 1.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2422 D, 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, note 117. Freed, Rita E., Lawrence M. Berman, and Denise M. Doxey. Arts of Ancient Egypt. MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003, pp. 90-91. 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. 97, cat. 37a. 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 37.1312: reconstructed counterweight including 36-6-55b (terminals), 36-6-55d (pendants), 36-7-35 ([a] cylinder beads and [b] ring beads from G 2416 D III)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
