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Beads

FindspotMeroe, Nubia (Sudan)
Object Place for LabelMeroe, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueStone, gold
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number22-2-534
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom Meroe. 1922: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
Group Shot: 23-M-703a, 23-M-703b & 23-M-703c
270 B.C.–A.D. 320
Beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Amulet of Pataikos
6th–4th century B.C.
Amulet
380–332 B.C.
Beads
late 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D.
String of beads
305–30 B.C.