Jewelry element: faience and steatite beads
Six hundred fifteen (615) [black] faience [and steatite] cylinder beads ([in this box forty-one beads of green glazed faience (a few originally blue)]).
Illustration: No.
Supplementary illustration: Yes.
Supplementary illustration scale: 2:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-1-1174
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_25-1-1174; 25-1-1174
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
- Entry Date
- 01/24/1925
- Title
- Jewelry element: faience and steatite beads
- Medium
- Faience, [steatite]
- Dimensions
- Length: .6 - 1.5 cm Diameter: .3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7112 A, body
- Bibliography
- Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 31.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
