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ID 148
ACCESSION NUMBER 1002
FIELD NUMBER 14-1-1226
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) 2.2
WIDTH (cm) 0.4
THICKNESS (cm) 0.2
DIAMETER (cm) 0.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY REISNER 1923: 336-337.
REFERENCE Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass.
ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION Many faience tubolar beads, many cylinder beads, many ball-beads and eighty-one amulet-beads. Amulets include: fifteen baboons, seven elongeted shape with rounded top, three rectangular plaques with dashed crosses, one rectangular palques with small engraved lines; one human figure, fourteen ladders, six human hands, three Taweret.
PRESERVATION STATE Complete
MUSEUM NMS KHARTOUM
SPECIFIC LOCATION Storerooms
LINK ON-LINE http://sudannationalmuseum.com/
Coordinates N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23"
SECTOR Eastern cemetery
SPECIFIC CONTEXT K 1600 lii
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION
DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION G. REISNER
YEAR OF EXCAVATION 1914
CREDIT LINE National Museum of Sudan
Suggested Citation

Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 148 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1286726b-89b6-4a2e-abba-aab8dd8db124> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2zk5sh47

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