name-bead
- Museum number
- EA26289
- Description
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Half of a whitish glass oblate name-bead, exterior inscribed with a register of hieroglyphs, perhaps including the name of Senenmut, architect and Chief Steward of Amun.
- Production date
- 1497 BC-1488 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.85 centimetres (max)
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Thickness: 0.88 centimetres (max)
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Width: 1.20 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Previously described in error as crystal but analysis proves the material to be a clear colourless soda-lime-silica glass. This is a very early occurrence of this in Egypt.
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 197, 212.
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Also discussed in: Schlick-Nolte, Birgit, Werthmann, R. and Loeben, C.E., 2011. An outstanding Glass Statuette owned by Pharaoh Amenhotep II and other Early Egyptian Glass Inscribed with Royal Names, Journal of Glass Studies 53, 11-44.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- poor (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA26289
- Registration number
- 1896,0210.18