Jewelry: fragments of silver bracelets and butterfly inlays
Miscellaneous fragments from silver bracelets (corroded pieces of silver) and miscellaneous pieces from butterfly inlays (turquoise, lapis lazuli, carnelian).
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.1702
- Alternate IDs
- 47.1702; MFAB_47.1702
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Bracelets, armlets, anklets
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Snefru - reign of Khufu
- Entry Date
- 2575–2528 B.C.
- Title
- Jewelry: fragments of silver bracelets and butterfly inlays
- Medium
- Silver, lapis lazuli, turquoise, carnelian
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I
- Bibliography
- No author. The Tomb of Queen Hetep-heres. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, no date, pp. 8-9. Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom in Egypt," The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 26.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1926: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1947: gift of the government of Egypt.
