Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
Strand of beads: composed of mixed lot of carnelian and faience beads including five ball beads (1 faience, 4 carnelian), four barrel beads (2 large faience, 1 medium faience, 1 carnelian), two cylinder beads, and nineteen ring beads. [including beads from 07-2-74 and 07-2-75 (lots a & c), 07-2-76 (lot a), possibly 07-2-81 (lots a & c) or 07-2-101 (lot d)]
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- ID
- MFAB_11.997
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Beads
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room J1 = pillared hall 27 / Lots a, c, d)
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- Material
- Carnelian, faience
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- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Greco-Roman Period, Roman Imperial
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- Date of Register Entry
- 30 B.C. – A.D. 364
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- 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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- Remarks
- Registration numbers obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 260-261.
