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Belt with blue-glazed quartz crystal pendant
Belt with blue-glazed quartz crystal pendant

Belt with blue-glazed quartz crystal pendant

1700–1550 B.C.
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Country of Origin, for CustomsSudan
Medium/TechniqueGlazed quartz
DimensionsLength: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number13.4128
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, South Cemetery, tomb K X. 1913: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.

(Accession Date: December 4, 1913)
String of beads
4200–3250 B.
String of  ball beads
1700–1550 B.C.
Blue-glazed quartz beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Beads
2400–1550 B.C.
String of ball beads
1700–1550 B.C.
Beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Pendants
1700–1550 B.C.
Bead
1700–1550 B.C.
Various beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Various beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.