necklace(?);
bead;
scarab;
cowroid;
amulet;
spacer-bar
- Museum number
- EA16943
- Description
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Necklace (?) comprising a number of small spherical, short truncated bicone and barrel beads of cornelian with 11 long truncated bicone, small spherical and short cylinder beads of sheet gold, with six scarabs and 3 cowroids of both glazed and unglazed steatite, one is inscribed with the prenomen of Thutmose III and another with name of Amun, the rest are elaborated with a variety of decorative motifs and amuletic hieroglyphs, a rectangular spacer-bar of cornelian, with two longitudinal perforations, is strung centrally, the string terminates with a cornelian Bes-amulet and a green glazed composition frog-amulet.
- Dimensions
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Length: 41.20 centimetres (string)
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good (glaze worn in places)
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16943
- Registration number
- 1886,0605.27
