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ID 306
ACCESSION NUMBER 1003
FIELD NUMBER 14-3-889
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) 1.6
WIDTH (cm) 0.3
THICKNESS (cm) 0.2
DIAMETER (cm) 0.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY REISNER 1923: 240-241
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 seventy-four amulet-beads. Amulets include: ten baboons, one djed pillar, sixteen elongeted shapes with rounded top, two human hands, one cross-hatched plaque, six rectangular plaques, fourteen ladders, twenty-four 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 453 debris
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 306 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/5c3ec8d9-774e-420b-b667-4a7c8a459ce0> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2fb5hg9t

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