| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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| ID | 2063 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 20 1743 |
| SUBJECT | string of ball beads |
| DESCRIPTION | This string consists of one hundred and four blue glazed quartz crystal irregularly shaped ball beads. The surface of the beads is not perfectly polished and in some cases the brilliant blue glazing is lost. The hole is unipolar: the diameter of one of the two is greater than the other |
| CHRONOLOGY | Classic Kerma |
| CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE | 1750-1550 BC |
| MATERIAL | quartz |
| MATERIAL (Note) | quartz |
| LENGTH (cm) (Note) | 64 (string) |
| THICKNESS (cm) (Note) | 0.7 (beads) |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | Reisner 1923: 170-171 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | This string consists of one hundred and four blue glazed quartz crystal irregularly shaped ball beads. |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | MFA BOSTON |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | https://collections.mfa.org/objects/143169/string-of-ball-beads? ctx=a466ad5b-e389-4b70-ac4b-db569d7a000d&idx=0 |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K 334 debris |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION | HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION |
| DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION | G. REISNER |
| YEAR OF EXCAVATION | 1913 |
| CREDIT LINE | Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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quartz (mineral)
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Elena D’Itria
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Suggested Citation
Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 2063 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/dd8f37a7-1c89-4f52-bb8f-c7cea4dcecc4> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2k367872
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