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Various beads and leather fragments
Various beads and leather fragments

Various beads and leather fragments

about 1700–1550 B.C.
Object Place for LabelKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueBlue faience, shell, leather
DimensionsDiameter of disc bead: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number14.1094
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceFrom Nubia, Kerma, 1803/4. 1914: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
Ring beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Various beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Ring beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Ring and cylinder beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Ring beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Ring beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Various beads
2400–1550 B.C.
Various beads
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Ring beads
2400–1550 B.C.