Jewelry element: faience beads
Pill box (8 cm in diameter) full of faience beads: a) blue and black faience cylinder beads.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_36-5-47a
- Alternate IDs
- 36-5-47a; HUMFA_36-5-47a; EMC_JE_67609; JE_67609; EMC_JE_68318; JE_68318; EMC_SR_7/4362; SR_7/4362
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 05/20/1936
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Length: .4 - 1 cm Diameter: .2 - .3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2420 H, chamber, 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. 157, note 122.
- Notes
- Two faience terminals (HUMFA_36-5-46) and a number of cylinder and ring beads (HUMFA_36-5-47a and HUMFA_36-5-47b) now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo; originally registered as EMC_JE_67609, reregistered as EMC_JE_68318.
