| Object Number |
31-27-303 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt | Meydum |
| Locus |
Tomb 314 |
| Period |
Middle Kingdom | Twelfth Dynasty |
| Date Made |
1980-1630 BCE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Faience |
| Iconography |
Falcon Head |
| Description |
Faience broad collar (wesekh) made with six alternating rows of blue and black tubular beads and a final row of teardrop beads. The ends of the collar are decorated with falcon-headed terminals. |
| Length |
43.2 cm |
| Width |
33 cm |
| Depth |
7.6 cm |
| Credit Line |
The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Meydum; Alan Rowe, 1931 |
| Other Number |
30-2-165A - Field No SF |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. Page/Fig./Plate: 30,31 |
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| Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. See: p. 104, fig. 93 |
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| Silverman, David P. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Cornell University Press, 1997. Page/Fig./Plate: 264/87 |
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| The Artifacts of Ancient Egypt. National Museum of History, Republic of China, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 116 |
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| Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 81, fig. 49 |
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