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Beaded basket
Egyptian
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom, Dynasty 12–18
1991–1295 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Palm fiber(?)
Dimensions
Overall: 3 x 4.4 cm (1 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number47.1704
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsFurniture
DescriptionTiny straw basket with a row of small blue faience beads woven into design around circumference of basket. Inner ring of fiber used as the place where a lid sat?
ProvenanceFrom Shalfak: Debris in E. Wall St. South. 1931: excavated by the Hravard University–Museum of Fine Arts expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the Egyptian government; 1947: received by the MFA.