Gold and the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia at MFA Boston

  • March 25, 2014
Gold and the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia at MFA Boston
The MFA's collection of Nubian adornments is the most comprehensive outside Khartoum, a result of an early 20th-century expedition by the Museum with Harvard University. Gold and the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia will illustrate the complex relationship which Ancient Nubia, located in what is now Sudan, had with its neighbors. As the conduit between the Mediterranean world and lands south of the Nile Valley, Nubia was known for its exotic luxury goods–especially gold. The exhibition will focus on excavated ornaments, dating from 1700 B.C. to the 300 A.D., including both uniquely Nubian and foreign imports, prized for their materials, craftsmanship, symbolism, innovation and rarity.
Gold and the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia will exhibit some 100 objects, including a gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye and the famous Hathor-headed crystal pendant. The MFA is the only U.S. museum able to mount an exhibition devoted solely to Nubian adornment drawing exclusively on its own collection.

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