Jewelry element: faience beads
Fifty-two faience beads; shapes varied (51 various cylindrical + 1 knobby barrel), various shades of blue and greenish-blue; good condition. [barrel bead 07-2-81 (lot a), cylindrical beads probably 07-2-75 (lot a and lot c)]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.977
- Alternate IDs
- 11.977; MFAB_11.977
- 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: faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Overall: 82.5 cm (32 1/2 in.) length; .4 bead diameter
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J1 = pillared hall 27 / Lots a, c)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 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 number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.