bead;
pendant
- Museum number
- EA16936
- Description
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A number of disc beads of green olivine with black mottling, barrel disc beads of cornelian, larger chipped barrel disc beads of garnet and two flat, long and pointed scutiform pendants of green olivine with black mottling, pierced at the widest part from front to back.
- Dimensions
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Length: 2 centimetres (pendants)
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Length: 27.50 centimetres (whole)
- Curator's comments
- Said by the Revd. Greville J. Chester to have come from Gebelein.
These pendants cannot be exactly paralleled by any published example. They are near to Brunton's type 89F9 in G. Brunton & G. Caton-Thompson, ‘The Badarian Civilization’ (London, 1928, pl.L, serpentine, S.D.56-70. but the latter lacks the small knob at the top. Perhaps these pendants represent a palette-shaped amulet and the knob is a stylised animal- or bird-head cf. G. Möller & A. Scharff, ‘Die archaeologischen Ergebnisse des Vorgeschichtlichen Gräberfeldes von Abusir el-Meleq’ (Osnabrück, 1969), pl.32, no. 305 and pl.36. no. 312.
- Location
- On display (G64/dc15)
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16936
- Registration number
- 1886,0605.3
