Jewelry: strand of alabaster, faience, and ivory beads
Strand of beads: composed of one hundred and forty-five alabaster disc beads, one faience and one ivory ball bead.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.873
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.873; 11.873
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
- Title
- Jewelry: strand of alabaster, faience, and ivory beads
- Medium
- Alabaster, faience, ivory
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.) length
- 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 Fine Arts 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)