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| ID | 789 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 14 1168 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14 1 1237 |
| SUBJECT | Taweret |
| DESCRIPTION | Taweret is depicted in a very schematic way: she was represented standing up on her hind legs. The snout is square, as are the eyes and ears, both of which were made by two small protrusions on the top of the head. While the belly was swollen, the arms and the paws were not indicated. There were only summary and superficial oblique lines on the sides of the body as in the case of the baboons. This amulet-bead never have a back pillar but is characterized by a pierced hole running lengthwise. |
| CHRONOLOGY | Classic Kerma |
| CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE | 1750-1550 BC |
| MATERIAL | faience |
| MATERIAL (Note) | faience |
| LENGTH (cm) | 1.6 |
| WIDTH (cm) | 0.4 |
| THICKNESS (cm) | 0.3 |
| DIAMETER (cm) | 0.0 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | REISNER 1923: 400 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | There are six strings with a total of 161 amulet beads (1.7 cm in length). There are also three other strings: one string of seventeen short cylinder beads (0.4 cm in length), one small ball bead, two cylinder beads and one cylinder bead, one string of 185 small shell ring beads (0.4 cm in diameter), one decorated cylinder bead, two glass ball beads and a third string of fifteen ring beads, three cylinder beads. Also present are many loose beads and amulets of which some are broken. Amulets include: eighty-six Taweret, thity-two baboons, two elongeted shapes with rounded top, nine human hands, twenty-four ladders, eight rectangular decorated plaques. |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | MFA BOSTON |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/366855/beads |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K XVI 1600 C4 |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION | HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION |
| DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION | G. REISNER |
| YEAR OF EXCAVATION | 1914 |
| 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 789 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/57868b4a-a4ad-4391-911d-7813ae11225c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2q81rp0b
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