Strand of beads: composed of sixteen faience beads shaped like cowrie shells. [06-12-9]
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- ID
- MFAB_11.3119
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Necklaces and pectorals
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / NW corner of court / burial)
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- Material
- Faience
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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.
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- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1906. 06-12-9: only eleven imitation cowries recorded in publication, twelve appear in photo A232.
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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, p. 13.
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