Jewelry element: faience pendant
Faience pendant; light blue glaze, V-shaped openwork design; good condition. [07-2-139]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.1103
- Alternate IDs
- 11.1103; MFAB_11.1103
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience pendant
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 2 x 1.5 cm (13/16 x 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J2 = sloping corridor 28)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 21.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1907: 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.