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| ID | 1399 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 14 1322 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14 2 470 |
| SUBJECT | baboon |
| DESCRIPTION | The baboon is represented in a very schematic way withouth any detail. It was pierced lengthwise. The animal is crouched on a rectangular base; the snout is merely outlined, short and squared, the eyes and the ears realized by small projections; the body is smooth but without any indication of the lower arms and paws. There were only summary and superficial oblique lines on the sides of the body. |
| CHRONOLOGY | Classic Kerma |
| CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE | 1750-1550 BC |
| MATERIAL | faience |
| MATERIAL (Note) | faience |
| LENGTH (cm) | 2.6 |
| WIDTH (cm) | 0.3 |
| THICKNESS (cm) | 0.2 |
| DIAMETER (cm) | 0.0 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | Reisner 1923: 159 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | This group of beads consists of five very long strings of cylinder beads; thirty complete and two fragmentary loose thick cylinder beads; eighteen complete and six fragmentary loose cylinder beads of regular thickness; three complete and four fragmentary loose long, thin cylinder beads with impressions on the outside; fifty-two loose fragments of flattened cylinder beads with impressions on the outside (some with various indentations as well); one string of truncated ball beads; one string of barrel beads; loose flattened cylinder beads with impressions on the outside (some with various indentations); and 90 amulet-beads (17 baboons, 9 double feathers, 10 rectangular incised beads, 16 ladders, 30 Taweret). |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | MFA BOSTON |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/365734/beads?ctx=5ad32310-e5d4-414b-b1be-ab0a0771f90b&idx=0 |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K 320 |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION | HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION |
| DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION | G. REISNER |
| YEAR OF EXCAVATION | 1913 |
| CREDIT LINE | Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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faience (composite material)
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Classic Kerma |
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Elena D’Itria
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Suggested Citation
Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 1399 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/01ccdfec-c7fb-46d6-ac17-2be89069416d> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2t444z43
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