project banner image
Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
ID 377
ACCESSION NUMBER 1000
FIELD NUMBER 14-2-416
SUBJECT ladder
DESCRIPTION Ladder is characterized by a rectangular shape with 9 horizontal elements that follow each other on the frontward side, while the backside appears to be smooth. It was pierced lengthwise.
CHRONOLOGY Classic Kerma
CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE 1750-1550 BC
MATERIAL faience
MATERIAL (Note) faience
LENGTH (cm) 1.7
WIDTH (cm) 0.2
THICKNESS (cm) 0.2
DIAMETER (cm) 0.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY REISNER 1923: 174-176
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 sixty amulet-beads. Amulets include: five baboons, fourteen elongeted shape with rounded top, one human hands, five rectangular plaques, fourteen ladders, twenty-one 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 338 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 377 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/7cbe62eb-8283-4a3e-a22a-21ab8edc43dd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k29318r1g

Editorial Status
●●●○○
Copyright License

To the extent to which copyright applies, this content carries the above license. Follow the link to understand specific permissions and requirements.

Required Attribution: Citation and reference of URIs (hyperlinks)