Jewelry: strand of faience beads with udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
Strand of beads: composed of blue faience cylinder beads and white and blue faience single ring, double ring, and multiple ring beads, with udjat eye amulet. [udjat = 07-2-41, beads = 07-2-42]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.3125
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.3125; 11.3125
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
- Period
- Greco-Roman Period, Roman Imperial
- Entry Date
- 30 B.C. – A.D. 364
- Title
- Jewelry: strand of faience beads with udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Overall: 52.5 cm (20 11/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J1 = pillared hall 27 / near mummy 52)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 260.
- 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 1907.