Jewelry element: faience beads
Faience ring beads; black, white, red-brown, blue, and green glaze; fourteen beads stuck together showing part of pattern.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_36-7-35b
- Alternate IDs
- 36-7-35b; HUMFA_36-7-35b
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Rings
- Entry Date
- 07/17/1936, 07/18/1936
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Diameter: .2 - .3 cm Thickness: .1 - .2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2416 D III, in wood 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, 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, b. 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 36-7-35a (cylinder beads), 36-7-35b (ring beads), and element from 36-6-55; MFA 37.1313: reconstructed broadcollar including 36-7-35b (ring beads), 35-1-27 (ring beads), and elements from 36-6-55
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
