String of Beads

E2903

From: Egypt | Rifeh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E2903
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Rifeh
Period Middle Kingdom | Twelfth Dynasty
Date Made 1938 - 1759 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Amethyst | Carnelian
Iconography Hippopotomus | Fish | falcon | Ox
Description

Beads: Spheroid -- faience; carnelian; amethyst. Disc -- shell. Barrel -- carnelian; amethyst. Amulets -- 1 hippopotamus head, carnelian; 2 fish, carnelian; 1 falcon, amazonite; 1 ox head, amethyst; 1 unidentified, carnelian. Small pendant -- carnelian. Scarab -- amethyst.

Credit Line Distribution from the British School of Archaeology; Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 1907
Other Number ES2903 - Other Number

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