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| ID | 250 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 1005 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14-2-1440 |
| SUBJECT | human hand |
| DESCRIPTION | The amulet has a rectangulr shape; it is charcaterized by the precence of two lateral elements, wider at the end and narrowing towars the center. A small projection is realzied at the middle of the amulet. It could also showed a hand in a very stylezed way. It was pierced lengthwise. |
| CHRONOLOGY | Classic Kerma |
| CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE | 1750-1550 BC |
| MATERIAL | faience |
| MATERIAL (Note) | faience |
| LENGTH (cm) | 2.5 |
| WIDTH (cm) | 0.3 |
| THICKNESS (cm) | 0.2 |
| DIAMETER (cm) | 0.0 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | REISNER 1923:396 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | Many faience beads: twenty-two ball-beads, thirty-seven disc-beads (diam. 0.6), twelve short tubolar-beads and fourty-five amulet-beads. Amulets include: eight baboons, one elongeted shape with rounded top, two human hands, three rectangular decorated plaques with dashed crosses, fourteen Taweret, one rectangular bead with a small protrusion. |
| 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 XVI C, body M |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION | HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION |
| DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION | G. REISNER |
| YEAR OF EXCAVATION | 1914 |
| CREDIT LINE | National Museum of Sudan |
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faience (composite material)
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Classic Kerma |
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Creator
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Elena D’Itria
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Suggested Citation
Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 250 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/24526176-9c71-402a-a745-b7b0ff42797d> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k23r19q14
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