String of Beads

Amulets

29-65-18

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 29-65-18
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Locus 89 A - 13:089 A
Section Egyptian
Materials Gold | Faience | Carnelian | Agate | Steatite | Hematite
Iconography Falcon | Scarab
Description

Barrel - 1 steatite; 1 haematite; carnelian; agate graded in size from small at ends of necklace to large central bead. | Ring - carnelian | Disc - black faience | Spheroid - carnelian | Cylinder - 1 carnelian. Wafer - 1 red gold. 1 carnelian falcon, not worked out in detail. 1 carnelian scarab with geometric design. 138 total beads.

Length 72 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923
Other Number D303 - Field No SF

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