necklace
- Museum number
- 132125
- Description
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Necklace of approximately 558 faience beads and pendants including:
54 pendants consisting of: 2 white and yellow daisy types (pl.XXXVI.92); 15 cornflower or corn cockle types - green or yellow and grey blue (pl.XXXVI.93); 6 grey blue grape cluster types (pl.XXXVI.94); 10 yellow and blue mandrake fruit types (pl.XXXVI.96); 14 in the form of reeds? - grey blue (pl.XXXVI.97); 1 blue lotus flower? type (pl.XXXVI.100); 6 blue Hathor head examples.
1 large spacer bead (pl.XXXVI.102)
503 beads including the following types: pl.XXXIV.1,2,3,4; pl.XXXV.47,67;
colour range: white, yellow, red, light blue, green blue, grey blue, grey.
For colour photograph of necklace see L.II pl.XIV (top).
- Dimensions
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Length: 13 centimetres (approximate)
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Width: 33.70 centimetres (approximate)
- Location
- On display (G57/dc7)
- Condition
- reasonably good, some beads rather worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 132125
- Registration number
- 1956,1016.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FN.2635
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Miscellaneous number: FN.4332A (spacer bead only)
