Beadnet Dress

This beadnet dress is constructed of faience cylinder beads (field number 33-3-34) and 27 faience floral pendants (field number 33-3-35a), reconstructed by Sheila Shear in 2001.

Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2345-2181 BC. From Giza, tomb G 2342 D (now G 5520 D); 1933: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 33.1020.1