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Beads
Nubian
Napatan Period
about 593–568 B.C.
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Meroe, Beg. S. Pyramid XLIV
Medium/Technique
Faience
Dimensions
.25 x 1.4 cm (1/8 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number21.12095
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Beads
DescriptionTwenty-seven cylinder beads and many fragments, very soft, probably green body paste (now faded white in most examples) small and well made, 102 rings, greenish body paste, surfact of most much faded, fifty-two black rings, 167 red, twenty-one pair red, two of three beads, red, one of six beads, red.
ProvenanceFrom Beg. South, Pyramid XLIV. 1921: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.