Jewelry: strand of faience beads
Strand of faience beads: composed of mixed lot of five hundred thirty-two (532) faience beads (originally from various necklaces) including two hundred sixty-one (261) long cylinder beads, one (1) black ball bead, two (2) blue eye beads, two hundred (200) single ring beads, thirty-seven (37) multiple ring beads, thirty-one (31) figure eight ring beads; blue, green, black, or beige glaze. [06-12-11]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.3121
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.3121; 11.3121
- 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: strand of faience beads
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Overall: 300 cm (118 1/8 in.) - length of string.
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / NW corner of court / burial)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 13.
- 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.
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1906.