Necklace
Object Number:
E7932
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Meroitic
Provenience:
Egypt
Nubia
Karanog
Locus:
G 783
Date Made:
100BC-300AD
Early Date:
-100
Late Date:
300
Section:
Egyptian
Materials:
Glass
Paste
Technique:
Gilded
Description:
Necklace of gilded ball beads with smaller multicolored balls in between. Pear-shaped pendants separated by spheroids and ring-beads. Original order.
Length:
30.5cm
Credit Line:
Coxe Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)
Bibliography:
[Book] Woolley, C. Leonard; D. Randall-Maciver. 1910. Karanog; the Romano-Nubian Cemetery (text). Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expediton to Nubia, Vol III. : Page/Fig./Plate: 257
[Book] O'Connor, David. 1993. Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa. : Page/Fig./Plate: 149/109
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 302-03
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