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| ID | 2058 |
| ACCESSION NUMBER | 1269 |
| FIELD NUMBER | 14 3 0113 |
| SUBJECT | human hand |
| DESCRIPTION | Human hand very stylized. 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) | 1.5 |
| WIDTH (cm) | 0.3 |
| THICKNESS (cm) | 0.2 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | Reisner 1923: 336-337 |
| REFERENCE | Reisner, G.A., 1923, Excavations at Kerma. Harvard African Studies, 5, Cambridge, Mass. |
| ORNAMENTS_DESCRIPTION | Many faience tubolar beads, many cylinder beads, many ring beads and sixteen amulet-beads. Amulets include: one baboon, three elongeted shape with rounded top, three ladders, five Taweret, one human hand, three rectangular decorated plaques. |
| PRESERVATION STATE | Complete |
| MUSEUM | NMS KHARTOUM |
| SPECIFIC LOCATION | Storerooms |
| LINK ON-LINE | http://sudannationalmuseum.com/pages_e/northernsudan.html |
| Coordinates | N 19°36'43.52" E 30°26'42.23" |
| SECTOR | Eastern cemetery |
| SPECIFIC CONTEXT | K 1045, debris |
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION | HARVARD UNIVERSITY- BOSTON MFA EXPEDITION |
| DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION | G. REISNER |
| YEAR OF EXCAVATION | 1914 |
| CREDIT LINE | National Museum of Sudan |
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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 2058 from Africa/Sudan/Kerma". In The Amulets of the Kerma Culture. Elena D’Itria (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/f3ce55f5-7981-4160-a0ae-52c09f916118> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k26t13s0p
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