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Jewelry element: faience pendants

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2407

Necklace elements: a) fifty-two whole faded blue-green faience pendant beads with two holes; two faience pendant beads; broken and mended; four faience pendant beads; broken and incomplete; total of fifty-eight pendant beads. Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_36-4-80a
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Jewelry & adornment-Beads
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2407 C, coffin pit
  • Material
    Faience
  • Dimensions
    Width: .6 - .9 cm Length: 1.3 - 1.9 cm Thickness: .25 - .5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 37.1314
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/30/1936
  • Remarks
    MFA 37.1314: broadcollar reconstructed from elements 36-4-80a, 36-4-80b, and 36-4-80c, and modern gilded wood terminals.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2407

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski, Edward. "Old Kingdom Beaded Collars." In Jacke Phillips with Lanny Bell, Bruce B. Williams, James Hoch and Ronald J. Leprohon (eds.) Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East. Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, Volume 1. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1997, p. 156, notes 117, 120.

    Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 67.