Jewelry element: faience bead
Faience barrel bead [(Old Kingdom)]; [blue glaze].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: 2:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-706
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-706; 24-11-706
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 11/20/1924
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience bead
- Medium
- Faience
- Dimensions
- Length: 2.35 cm Diameter: bead: .825 cm; bore: .25 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Avenue G 1], debris from [boat pit] [N] of subsidiary pyramid G I-b (G I-a boat pit)
- Remarks
- Provenance originally recorded in OR incorrect; boat pit N of subsidiary pyramid G I-b, thus S of subsidiary pyramid G I-a (G I-a boat pit), was excavated end of November 1924
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified