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ID 321
ACCESSION NUMBER 1003
FIELD NUMBER 14-3-889
SUBJECT ladder
DESCRIPTION Ladder is characterized by a rectangular shape with 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) 1.5
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 321 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/80c20f42-6cb2-4af6-9f9a-e2074a54ddde> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2611gn8c

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