Object owner details: MFA accession number: 13.3086

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2381 A, [chamber, in coffin] (511)

Faience, gold

Description: Necklace made of small gold beads, short blue glazed faience beads, and gold pendants, ends caught in two half discs [(terminals)] of gold inscribed [GLYPHS]; [necklace consists of six double rows of small blue faience cylinder beads separated by single rows of small gold ball beads and bottom row of gilded beetle pendants, and ends finished with semicircular gold terminals inscribed for Impy (more than one-half of necklace found intact, rest restored accordingly)]. Illustration: Yes

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Brovarski, Edward. "Old Kingdom Beaded Collars." In Jacke Phillips with Lanny Bell, Bruce B. Williams, James Hoch and Ronald J. Leprohon (eds.) Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East. Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, Volume 1. San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1997, pp. 156, 159, notes 118, 130. Maddin, R., T. Stech, J.D. Muhly & E. Brovarski. "Old Kingdom Models from the Tomb of Impy: Metallurgical Studies." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 70 (1984), p. 33. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 100-101, cat. 38b. Reisner, George A. "A Family of Builders of the Sixth Dynasty, about 2600 B.C." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11, No. 66 (November 1913), p. 60, fig. 14. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 55, 66-68, fig. 39.

Remarks: Additional small gold beads and fragments of faience beads not used in reconstruction of broadcollar MFA owned (unaccessioned).