Girdle with Fish-Shaped Beads
Object type: Girdle, fish
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: L. as strung 83.8 cm (33 in.); L. of individual fish 2.4 cm (15/16 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D
Locale: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III
Credit line: Fletcher Fund, 1919, 1920 (26.8.61a); Purchase, Edward S. Harkness, Gift, 1926 (26.7.1354); Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1987 (1987.399.1)
Accession year: 1926
Tags: Fish