bead
- Museum number
- EA38026
- Description
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Cylinder bead: of green glazed composition, partly decayed in certain areas to white or brown. The bead has a fine bore.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.30 centimetres
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Length: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Chamber M seems to have been used as a rubbish hole: the objects in it were generally damaged. The latest pottery and flints date to the reign of Peribsen and the jewellery is not likely to be much earlier.
Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Abydos' II (London, 1903), 23, 26. Similar beads are shown on pl.VIII, 153-4, 159;
E. A. Wallis Budge 'A Guide to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Egyptian Rooms, and the Coptic Room' (London, 1922), 290, no. 227.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (green glaze gone brown)
- Acquisition date
- 1903
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA38026
- Registration number
- 1903,1010.18