Jewelry element: faience bead
Cylindrical faience bead.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.856
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.856; 11.856
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience bead
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / between granary under room I 50 [Dynasty 4 level] and walls of I 50)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 235.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of FineArts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)