necklace(?);
bead;
pendant;
amulet;
spacer-bead;
spacer-bar
- Museum number
- EA30355
- Description
-
Necklace (?) divided into nine sections, each having, except for the outermost two, five vertical strings comprising three short cylinder, spherical or short truncated bicone beads of cornelian alternating with two short cylinder beads of gold, each of the sections incorporates a leaf-shaped pendant flanked by lily-pendants of gold, although in the central section the leaf-shaped pendant is replaced by a gold amulet in the form of a hawk and in one other instance the leaf-shaped pendant is replaced by a tritubular spacer-bar of gold, the sections are divided by six electrum double-faced spacer-bars in the form of heads of Bes, the two outermost sections are divided from the rest of the string by spacer-beads consisting of four elongated barrel beads of gold joined together, and constitutes five or six vertical bands similar to those found in the other sections, each section has a lily-pendant and a uraeus amulet of gold suspended from it, each end of the string terminates with a loop of cornelian short cylinder, spherical or short truncated bicone, and in one case a few gold short cylinder, beads.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 32.60 centimetres (string)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA30355
- Registration number
- 1898,0315.455
