Headband and necklaces
Copper headband covered with golden leaf (interior of diadem GEM_6184); necklace consisting of 50 gold pendants in the form of beetles, strung on gold wire; necklace (or bracelet?) consisting of 15 faience beads on gold wire.
Details
- ID
- GEM_6178
- Alternate IDs
- GEM_6178; 6178; EMC_JE_72333; JE_72333; EMC_JE_72334; JE_72334; EMC_JE_72337; JE_72337; EMC_SR_1/4863; SR_1/4863; SH_exc_160; exc_160; SH_exc_162; exc_162; SH_exc_163; exc_163; EMC_SR_1/4875; SR_1/4875; EMC_SR_1/4868; SR_1/4868
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Miscellaneous
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Headband and necklaces
- Medium
- Copper, gold, decayed faience and blue paste.
- Dimensions
- Headband: diam. 24.0 cm; necklace: L 46 cm; necklace (or bracelet?) L 31 cm.
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 8887, shaft 294, burial chamber, in sarcophagus
- Bibliography
- PM 3, p. 265: HASSAN, Gîza, ii, pls. xlix-lii [2], p. 149 [3]; I.L.N. Feb. 21, 1931, figs. on pp. 294-5, 297 [upper]; ALDRED, Jewels of the Pharaohs, pls. 4, 5. Manuelian, Peter Der. "The Lost Throne of Queen Hetepheres from Giza: An Archaeological Experiment in Visualization and Fabrication." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 53 (2017), p. 16.
- Notes
- From excavations of Selim Hassan, 1931. Headband originally registered as EMC_JE_72333 (= EMC_SR_1/4863 = SH_exc_160); necklace originally registered as EMC_JE_72334 (= EMC_SR_1/4875 = SH_exc_162); necklace (or bracelet?) originally registered as EMC_JE_72337 (= EMC_SR_1/4868 = SH_exc_163).
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Selim Hassan; RELATED SITE(S): burial shaft 294; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_72333; EMC_JE_72334; EMC_JE_72337; EMC_SR_1.4863; ex. No. 160, 162, 163
