bead;
amulet
- Museum number
- EA37314
- Description
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A string composed of many long cylindrical beads of feldspar, cornelian and white glazed composition, short truncated convex bicone beads of garnet and cornelian, one long convex bicone bead of feldspar and two of turquoise, one short cylinder of cornelian and twelve long pear-shaped pendants of very dark cornelian, each with a small green glazed composition disc bead at the lower end. The string is completed by a green glazed composition amulet of a bearded man (?).
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.90 centimetres
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Length: 35 centimetres
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Weight: 12 grammes
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Also from this burial: beads (1902,1011.53 & 1902,1011.54 & 1902,1011.56 & 1902,1011.57 & 1902,1011.58 & 1902,1011.67). finger-rings (1902,1011.49 and 1902,1011.50), shells (1902,1011.60), spacer bar (1902,1011.47), torque (1902,1011.51).
Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Abydos' I (London, 1902), 34 ff describes Petrie's excavations in cemetery G without reference to this particular tomb. It is not impossible that tomb G 62 was excavated not by Petrie but by Currelly. See E. R. Ayrton, C. T Currelly and A. E. P. Weigall, ‘Abydos’ III (London, 1904), 47. no. 12 from tomb a 60, registered with a number in the same series as the objects from G 62; E. A. Wallis Budge 'A Guide to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms, and the Coptic Room' (London, 1922), 291, nos. 26-57.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA37314
- Registration number
- 1902,1011.55
