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ID 1768
ACCESSION NUMBER 16 4 1601
FIELD NUMBER 13 3806
SUBJECT pendant
DESCRIPTION Mother-of-pearl pendant, circular in shape, two holes for hanging in the upper part, the edges are smoothed. The external surface is removed, the internal mother-of-pearl one is still on. The lower right edge is chipped.
CHRONOLOGY Ancient Kerma
CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE 2500-2000 BC
MATERIAL Avicula margaritacea
MATERIAL (Note) Avicula margaritacea
LENGTH (cm) 11.0
WIDTH (cm) 10.9
THICKNESS (cm) 0.1
DIAMETER (cm) 11.2
BIBLIOGRAPHY Dunham 1982: 83; pl. XVIIIa, XXXIIIc, XLIc;Winlock 1932: 388-392; Bonnet 1988: 14; Bourriau 1988: 153-154.
REFERENCE Dunham, D., 1982, Excavations at Kerma. Part VI. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION Mother-of-pearl pendant, circular in shape, two holes for hanging in the upper part, the edges are smoothed. The external surface is removed, the internal mother-of-pearl one is still on. The lower right edge is chipped.
PRESERVATION STATE Incomplete
MUSEUM MFA BOSTON
SPECIFIC LOCATION Storerooms
LINK ON-LINE https://mfa.org/
Coordinates N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23"
SECTOR Cemetery N
SPECIFIC CONTEXT KN 189
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION
DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION G. REISNER
YEAR OF EXCAVATION 1916
CREDIT LINE Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Suggested Citation

Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 1768 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/4c864c25-9b7c-4f6a-b44f-15fb1a51fef1> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2668wf24

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