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ID 1215
ACCESSION NUMBER 14 1335
FIELD NUMBER 14 2 552
SUBJECT Rectanguar decorated plaque with wavy edges
DESCRIPTION this plaque was made rectangular in form with a wavy edges charcaterized by protruding and inset sections. It was pierced lengtwis
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
Suggested Citation

Elena D’Itria. (2024) "Item 1215 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/ed4e2472-300c-49c4-ab7c-cad6e9eada7e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k27d3b400

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