Bead String
| Object Number: | 29-65-468B |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Egypt Dendereh |
| Locus: | 13:198 c/xi Probably from body of child beside adult. |
| Section: | Egyptian |
| Materials: | Glass Faience Steatite Jasper Turquoise Carnelian |
| Iconography: | fly Hathor head eye lotus flower |
| Length: | 0.565 m |
| Credit Line: | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923 |
| Other Number: | D965 - Field No SF |
Description
A variety of bead materials and shapes interspersed with amulets.
Beads: Ring -- 1 blue glass. Multiple ring -- blue and green faience. Barrel -- glass, red and gray faience, 1 steatite. Drop -- faience. Flattened spheroid -- red jasper. Ribbed -- 1 red, 1 yellow, and 1 blue faience. Cylinder -- 1 turquoise. Disc -- blue faience. Ridged -- 2 carnelian. A few beads of carnelian (?) of irregular shapes. The material has been eaten into.
Amulets: Eye -- 5 faience. Lotus flower -- 1 faience, 2 glass, 2 carnelian. Heart -- 1 carnelian. Hathor head -- 1 blue faience. Fly -- 2 faience. Menat -- 1 blue faience. Figures on plaques -- 5 blue faience.
Pendants -- glass, jasper, faience.
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