Digital Giza | Jewelry element: faience spacers

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4341, G 1204, G 1157

[One of] six different necklace elements: c) five faience spacers with four to six holes; originally blue-green glaze, two discolored more or less brown. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

ID

GEM_28554c
Department

Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification

Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
Findspot

Pit G 4341 B, debris of chamber
Material

Faience
Dimensions

Width: .6 - .7 cm Length: 2.4 - 2.6 cm Thickness: .3 - .4 cm
Credit Line

Grand Egyptian Museum
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_34-8-4c
Journal d'Entree number

EMC_JE_68319
Journal d'Entree number

EMC_JE_67608
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_7/4363
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Date of Register Entry

08/15/1934
Notes

Five terminals, four pendants, sixteen spacers, and a number of cylinder and ring beads registered as GEM_28554; originally registered as HUMFA_34-8-4a-f. Formerly EMC_JE_68319 (also registered as EMC_JE_67608). Only four plain spacers shown in photo GEM_28554_001.