Jewelry element: carnelian and faience beads
Strand of beads: composed of mixed lot of carnelian and faience beads including five ball beads (1 faience, 4 carnelian), four barrel beads (2 large faience, 1 medium faience, 1 carnelian), two cylinder beads, and nineteen ring beads. [including beads from 07-2-74 and 07-2-75 (lots a & c), 07-2-76 (lot a), possibly 07-2-81 (lots a & c) or 07-2-101 (lot d)]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.997
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.997; 11.997
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period, Roman Imperial
- Entry Date
- 30 B.C. – A.D. 364
- Title
- Jewelry element: carnelian and faience beads
- Medium
- Carnelian, faience
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J1 = pillared hall 27 / Lots a, c, d)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 260-261.
- 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)
- Remarks
- Registration numbers obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.