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Eye beads

Findspotel-Kurru, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueFaience; blue/green glaze
DimensionsDiameter: 1–2 cm (3/8 – 13/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number19.2692
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom el-Kurru, Ku. 53 (tomb of Queen Tabiry). 1919: 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.
Beads
750–250 B.C.
Beads
750–250 B.C.
Beads
750 B.C.–A.D. 339
Bead
750–250 B.C.
Cylinder seal
883–612 B.C.
Cylinder seal
883–612 B.C.
Cylinder seal
883–612 B.C.
Fragment of faience
750–250 B.C.