Middle Kingdom jewellery

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Book chapter
Creator (person)
Guerra, Maria F
Troalen, Lore G
Maitland, Margaret
Ponting, Matthew
Price, Campbell
Meeks, Nigel
Shaw, Ian
La Niece, Susan
Date published
2023
Abstract
The outstanding Middle Kingdom jewellery, entirely or partially made in cloisonné work, and often containing colourful beads of different materials to produce amazing polychrome effects and surface textures, also includes the earliest examples in Egypt of granulation. Many of these techniques are illustrated through the study of gold objects excavated at sites throughout Egypt: Haraga, Riqqa, Abydos, Lahun and Naqada. Jewellery items, gold foils and gilded artefacts were analysed with a view to comparing the alloys used for the production of these different sorts of objects.
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McDonald Institute Monographs
Book title
Ancient Egyptian gold: Archaeology and science in jewellery (3500-1000 BC)
Editor
Guerra, Maria F
Martinà³n-Torres, Marcos
Quirke, Stephen
Pagination
245-312
Publisher
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Place of publication
Cambridge
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Full text available via Apollo Repository DOI: 10.17863/cam.99683