bead;
pendant;
necklace(?)
- Museum number
- EA14790
- Description
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Bead, pendant, necklace (?); a collection of sixty-four blue-green glazed composition pendant beads of various shapes and dimensions; nine lotus pendants, with suspension loops at top and base; nine pendants in form of plumed cartouches, two with one inscription and seven with another, with suspension loops at top and base; seventeen pendants in form of rearing uraeus crowned with solar disc (two incomplete); eight pendants in form of hes-vase with suspension loops at top and base (one incomplete); five poppy-head pendants with suspension loops at top and base; three mandrake pendants with suspension loops at top and base; two date pendants with suspension loops at top and base; eight pear-shaped pendants with suspension loops at top and base (one incomplete).
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.65 centimetres (cartouche)
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Length: 2.18 centimetres (date)
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Length: 2.71 centimetres (hes-vase)
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Length: 2.35 centimetres (lotus)
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Length: 2.15 centimetres (mandrake)
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Length: 2.89 centimetres (pear-shaped)
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Length: 2.61 centimetres (poppy-head)
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Length: 2.34 centimetres (uraeus)
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Published: Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt (1994): fig.65
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA14790
- Registration number
- 1867,0812.239