Fly Pendants, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E. Silver, modern string, 5 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in. (12.7 × 16.5 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.641. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 14.641_PS9.jpg)
Fly Pendants, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E. Silver, modern string, 5 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in. (12.7 × 16.5 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.641. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.641_overall.jpg)
Fly Pendants
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MEDIUM
Silver, modern string
DATES
ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 18
PERIOD
New Kingdom
DIMENSIONS
5 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in. (12.7 × 16.5 × 1.3 cm)
mount (clasps for display and storage board): 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 6 in. (1.9 × 15.9 × 15.2 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
14.641
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund
PROVENANCE
Tomb 53 at Sawama, Egypt; March 18, 1914 excavated by Gerald Avery Wainwright and Thomas Whittemore for the Egypt Exploration Society; 1914, gift of the Egypt Exploration Society to the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Incomplete silver necklace composed of 10 silver flies and 22 small circular undecorated beads as dividers. The necklace is an interesting example of a well-known design in the 18th Dynasty and is in unusually good condition considering the material.
Condition: Preserved portion excellent condition. 5 of the flies are intact; the other 5 are more or less incomplete. Dividers modern.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Fly Pendants, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E. Silver, modern string, 5 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in. (12.7 × 16.5 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 14.641. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 14.641_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 14.641_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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