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ID 1986
ACCESSION NUMBER 27366
SUBJECT beads
DESCRIPTION 74 spheric beads grooved and pierced leghtwise. Most of these have lost their external glazing. One ball bead: smoothsurface, pierced legthwise, bipolar.
CHRONOLOGY Classic Kerma
CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE 1750-1550 BC
MATERIAL
MATERIAL (Note) faience: blue (22); green-blue (1); green (1); not glazed (50).
DIAMETER (cm) (Note) 0.7-0.4
ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION 74 spheric beads grooved and pierced leghtwise. Most of these have lost their external glazing. One ball bead: smoothsurface, pierced legthwise, bipolar.
PRESERVATION STATE Complete
MUSEUM MAH GENEVA
SPECIFIC LOCATION Storerooms
LINK ON-LINE https://collections.geneve.ch/mah/
Coordinates N 21°04′00″ E 30°43′00″
SECTOR 21-N-63
SPECIFIC CONTEXT Tomb 611
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION Mission archéologique de la Fondation Henry M. Blackmer et du Centre d'études orientales de l'Université de Genève
DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION C. Maystre
YEAR OF EXCAVATION 1966-1972
CREDIT LINE MAH, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève
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Suggested Citation

Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 1986 from Africa/Sudan/Akasha". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/659412c3-30f9-4922-ac32-09b7e2ee2a24> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2m61zk4s

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