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| ID | 1420 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 14 1607 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14 3 861 |
| 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) | 1.0 |
| 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 | This group of beads consists of eight strings of faience beads and amulets, ranging from 51 to 106 cm in length. The longest string has fifty-eight beads and amulets. Types include approximately one hundred ring beads (0.1 cm - 0.4 cm diameter), one ball bead, a number of barrel beads, corss-hatched rectangular beads, plain and fancy cylinder beads, and a wide variety of amulet-beadss. The amulets include: forty-six baboons, three djed pillars, fifty-five elongeted shape with rounded top, thirteen human hands, one hundred and three Taweret, thirteen rectangular decorated plaque with dashed crosses, three rectangular decorated plaques with wavy edges, twenty two rectangular decorated plaque, one rectangular shape with a small protrusion, eighty-four ladders, Also included are approximately two hundred loose complete and fragmentary ring beads and one ivory arrowhead-shaped fragment (1.7 cm x 1.1 cm). The Object Register lists forty-three miscellaneous decorated beads and fragments, twenty-two barrel beads and fragments, twenty cylinder beads and fragments, and a few small ring beads. It is not clear which of these are present here. Also listed in the Object Register but not present here are fourteen ankh amulets, one bone or shell ring, one piece of pottery, and one metal ring. |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | MFA BOSTON |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/365746/beads-and-amulets?ctx=9266a640-8eae-4e3b-8722-2c280ea486af&idx=0 |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K 453-11 |
| 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 1420 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/8ed0d97d-5c75-4c74-a8bf-7270a8d640e1> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2nk3t159
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