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Jewelry element: faience scarab bead

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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Faience bead in form of crude scarab.

Details

  • ID
    MFAB_11.870
  • Department
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Classification
    Jewelry & adornment-Beads
  • Findspot
    Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / between granary under room I 50 [Dynasty 4 level] and walls of I 50)
  • Material
    Faience
  • Dimensions
    Legacy dimension: .008 L.
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Notes
    This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)

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Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 235.