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Jewelry element: faience, crystal, and carnelian beads and pendants

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Two-hundred twelve small faience disk beads; green glaze // seven faience pomegranate pendants and two fragments of same; brown glaze // six faience pomegranate pendants; green glaze; suspension ring of two broken // four faience pomegranate pendants; purple glaze; suspension ring of one broken // forty small faience ring beads; brown glaze // two faience ball beads; green glaze // one crystal ball bead // one carnelian amulet of human face. Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_28-4-160
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Jewelry & adornment-Beads
  • Findspot
    Debris on top of Ptolemaic stairs between mastabas G 7520 and G 7530-7540: G 7530
  • Material
    Faience, crystal, carnelian
  • Dimensions
    Width: amulet: .9 cm Length: pomegranate, all colors: 1.3 - 1.5 cm; amulet: .8 cm Diameter: small disk, green: .4 - .5 cm; small ring, brown: .2 cm; ball, green: .7 cm; ball, crystal: .7 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/26/1928

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