Amulets, scarabs, and beads from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27): upper half (lot c): 07-2-65 (seated cat-headed goddess), 07-2-66 (two udjat/wadj plaques = MFA 11.1001, MFA 11.1049), 07-2-74 (barrel beads), 07-2-75 (cylinder beads = part of MFA 11.977), 07-2-80 (cat amulet = MFA 11.1048), 07-2-81 (miscellaneous beads, ball bead = MFA 11.1096), __-__-__ (possibly 07-2-71, fragment of udjat = MFA 11.1050,); lower half (lot a): 07-2-67 (scarab = MFA 11.1013), 07-2-68 (scarab = MFA 11.1000), 07-2-69 (upper half of Sekhmet amulet = MFA 11.1012), 07-2-70 (Sekhmet amulet = MFA 11.991), 07-2-71 (five udjats, three of complete amulets = MFA 11.988, MFA 11.990, MFA 11.1010, fragment = MFA 11.989), 07-2-72 (= MFA 11.1011, ivory plaque), 07-2-73 (three silver earrings = MFA 11.1007, MFA 11.1008, MFA 11.1009), 07-2-74 (two large barrel beads = part of MFA 11.997), 07-2-75 (cylinder beads = part of MFA 11.977), 07-2-76 (carnelian beads, top row 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 = possibly part of MFA 11.997), 07-2-77 (pebble pendant = part of MFA 11.966), 07-2-78 (three small pendants = part of MFA 11.966), 07-2-79 (headrest amulet = MFA 11.1035), 07-2-81 (miscellaneous beads, knobby barrel bead = part of MFA 11.977), __-__-__ (head of amulet of female deity wearing horns and solar disk = MFA 11.999)
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- ID
- HUMFA_B612_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
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- Date
- May 1910
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: these objects from MPT (GMT) not MVT (see C407, C410); registration numbers based on publication pp. 260-261 (no registration records from this date); apparently some beads from lot a and lot c combined under one assigned registration number in published list; 11.1050: this object may be an extra unrecorded (in publication) udjat belonging to group of 5 udjats with assigned registration number 07-2-71 (others attributed to lot a); MFA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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- MFAB_11.991
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- MFAB_11.1048
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- MFAB_11.1035
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1010
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1049
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.988
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.990
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1001
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Fragment of faience amulet of Isis
- MFAB_11.999
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Fragment of faience amulet of Sekhmet
- MFAB_11.1012
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Fragment of faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1050
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Fragment of faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.989
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- MFAB_11.1011
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Jewelry element: carnelian and faience beads
- MFAB_11.997
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- MFAB_11.1096
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Jewelry element: faience beads
- MFAB_11.977
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Jewelry: silver earring fragment
- MFAB_11.1009
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Jewelry: silver earring fragment
- MFAB_11.1007
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Jewelry: silver earring fragment
- MFAB_11.1008
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- MFAB_11.1013
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- MFAB_11.1000
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