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Bead from a Rosary or Chaplet

1500–50
Medium/TechniqueIvory or bone
Dimensions7.62 cm (3 in.)
Credit LineWilliam E. Nickerson Fund
Accession number57.589
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsReligious and cult objects
Collections
InscriptionsOn moulded quatrefoil base, in Latin: O MORS QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA ("Death, how bitter it is to be reminded of you.")
Provenance1957, sold by M. H. Drey, Ltd., London, to the MFA for $1,000. (Accession Date: September 12, 1957)
Rosary
mid-17th century
Altar
late 17th century
17th century
Reliquary figure (mbulu ngulu)
Artist Unidentified
Late 19th to early 20th century
2649–2100 B.C.
Crucifix
17th century
19th century
Amulet Case
19th century
Ivory wand
1783–about 1640 B.C.
Fragment of a wand
1550–1295 B.C.
Fragments of a wand
1550–1295 B.C.