Jewelry element: faience beads
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1102, G 1234, G 5563, G 2422, G 4516, G 4811+4812
[One of] ten different necklace elements: a) about two hundred fifty (250) small faience ring beads; green glaze; two hundred twenty (220) small faience ring beads; faded black.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-8-54a
- Alternate IDs
- 35-8-54a; HUMFA_35-8-54a
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 08/21/1935
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 2 - 3 cm Thickness: 1 - 2.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4516 C, [rock-cut] pit-coffin
- 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, pp. 156, 159, notes 120, 131, pl. I.
- Remarks
- Some beads and elements used for reconstructed choker (necklace) = MFA 37.1335 (35-8-54a, c, d, f); others used for reconstructed collar (necklace) = 35-8-54a-c (35-8-54a, b, c, MFA owned, unaccessioned); pendant beads = MFA 37.1328 (35-8-54e)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
