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ID 1358
ACCESSION NUMBER 14 1322
FIELD NUMBER 14 2 470
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) 2.5
WIDTH (cm) 0.4
THICKNESS (cm) 0.2
DIAMETER (cm) 0.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY Reisner 1923: 159
REFERENCE Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass.
ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION This group of beads consists of five very long strings of cylinder beads; thirty complete and two fragmentary loose thick cylinder beads; eighteen complete and six fragmentary loose cylinder beads of regular thickness; three complete and four fragmentary loose long, thin cylinder beads with impressions on the outside; fifty-two loose fragments of flattened cylinder beads with impressions on the outside (some with various indentations as well); one string of truncated ball beads; one string of barrel beads; loose flattened cylinder beads with impressions on the outside (some with various indentations); and 90 amulet-beads (17 baboons, 9 double feathers, 10 rectangular incised beads, 16 ladders, 30 Taweret).
PRESERVATION STATE Complete
MUSEUM MFA BOSTON
SPECIFIC LOCATION Storerooms
LINK ON-LINE https://collections.mfa.org/objects/365734/beads?ctx=5ad32310-e5d4-414b-b1be-ab0a0771f90b&idx=0
Coordinates N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23"
SECTOR Eastern cemetery
SPECIFIC CONTEXT K 320
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
Suggested Citation

Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 1358 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e3535394-449b-4216-8018-01414df6b9a0> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2hh7023f

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