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Hearst Museum/MFA ARK ark:/21549/hm21060014305
Museum Persistent URL https://n2t.net/ark:/21549/hm21060014305
Item Type Beads and pendants
Last Updated 2020-01-03
Time Period / Dynasty (Early Estimate) Dynasty 5
Time Period / Dynasty (Late Estimate) Dynasty 12
Cemetery 2000
Tomb 2021
Context Within Tomb Not in original excavator's notes.
Context In Relation to Body Empty pits. Rectangular cloth. Shells, etc.
Context (Other Info) This record is Reisner’s note of preliminary work that was done in 1901. But according to Hearst Museum records, objects were found in N 2021.
Item name Bracelet
Object Number 6-14305
Accession Number Acc.54/56/63/107
Count 74
Color brown gold
Material
Material Note faience covered in gold
Measurements (weight g) 2.2
Measurements - strand (length cm) 1.31
Measurements - strand (diameter cm) 8.5
Measurements (length mm) (Note) 1.34–19.93
Measurements (diameter mm) (Note) 2.75–4.16
Production could not determine (faience); plating on core (metal, with faience as the core)
Edge/No edge edge (ring beads); no edge (cylindrical and barrel beads).
Aperture descrpition end
Decoration metal cylindrical beads decorated by the burnished on core method with 2 lines on either end of the bead that run perpendicular to the length of the bead (the type of decoration that Beck (p. 66) refers to as a “zone bead”) and a spiral design in the center of the bead.
Polish moderate
Typology (Nai Xia 2014) barrel, short - M9f; cylindrical, short - M12p; ring, biconical - M2c
Object notes From Reisner's preliminary record of work done in 1901
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References
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Bracelet (ID: 6-14305) info
Vocabulary: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum Catalog
Open Context References: Bracelet (ID: 6-14305) hub
Contributor
Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms)
Vanessa Davies info
Vocabulary: The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500
Spatial Coverage
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Vanessa Davies info
Vocabulary: The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500
Subject
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Suggested Citation

Vanessa Davies. (2020) "Beads Pendants 9 from Africa/Egypt/Naga ed-Deir/Cemetery 2000/Tomb 2021". In The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500. Vanessa Davies (Ed). Released: 2020-12-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/30786170-d9c1-4f5d-a390-7f9ade0a0dbd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2k93dx1p

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