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Jewelry element: faience beads and faience terminal fragment

Thirty-nine short faience cylinder beads, two faience ring beads, one fragment of end piece [(terminal)] with holes [bored] clear through; faded blue-green glaze. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_15-12-50
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Jewelry & adornment-Beads
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4410 A, debris in chamber
  • Material
    Faience
  • Dimensions
    Width: end piece: 3.1 cm Length: beads: 5 - 13 mm; end piece: 2.7 cm Diameter: beads: 3 mm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/28/1915

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4410

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p.. 515.