bead
- Museum number
- EA14764
- Description
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Bead; a collection of seven beads of various shapes and materials; 1) large globular pottery bead, perhaps originally gilded; 2) blue-green glazed composition barrel bead (3) one pear-shaped bead (incomplete) of same material; 4) onyx barrel bead; 5) nacreous glazed composition drop bead; 6) yellow spherical glazed composition bead with applied annules; 7) pentagonal red glass bead with applied decoration of black annules.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.61 centimetres (large spherical bead)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (worn and glaze faded)
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA14764
- Registration number
- 1880,0531.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.3200b (Birch Slip Number)