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| ID | 1132 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 14 1335 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14 2 552 |
| SUBJECT | human hand |
| DESCRIPTION | This amulet has arectangulr shape; it was charcaterized by the precence of two lateral elements, wider at the end and narrowing towards the center. A small projection is realzied at the middle of the amulet. It could showed a hand in a very stylized way. It was pierced lengthwise. |
| CHRONOLOGY | Classic Kerma |
| CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE | 1750-1550 BC |
| MATERIAL | faience |
| MATERIAL (Note) | faience |
| LENGTH (cm) | 1.1 |
| WIDTH (cm) | 0.2 |
| THICKNESS (cm) | 0.1 |
| DIAMETER (cm) | 0.0 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | REISNER 1923a: 482 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | This group of beads consists of twenty white faience ring beads (0.7 diameter); many tiny blue faience ring beads (0.2 cm diameter); one crystal ball bead; one string (101 cm long) of scored cylinder beads (1.3 cm long x 0.2. cm diameter) and amulet beads. Approximately one hundred loose cylinder and 159 amulet beads, and one ivory fragment, possibly an inlay(1.6 cm x 1.0 cm). They are contained in two boxes. Amulets include: twenty baboons, fourteen elongeted shape with rounded top, thirty-four ladders, forty-four rectangular decorated plaques, forty Taweret, seven human hands. |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | MFA BOSTON |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/143162/amulets?ctx=7755b9e2-2ea6-40d7-8 |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K XV/1500 |
| 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 1132 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/d77487de-4a4a-4c4f-993e-2aaccef3809f> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2hd88p35
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