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Beads

1700–1550 B.C.
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueFaience, crystalline stone
DimensionsLength: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number14.1149
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, K XVI grave 1600-A. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
Sarcophagus fragment: resting geographical personification
middle or latter part of the 3rd century A.D.
Beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Fragmentary head from a herm (?)
about 465 B.C. or later
Goddess or woman
about 5th–early 4th century B.C.
Persephone or a Muse
about 350–300 B.C. (?)
Head of an athletic youth
about 330–300 B.C.
Artemis Bendis
4th century B.C.