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bead(?); stud(?)

Object Type: bead (?); stud (?)
Museum number: EA51402
Description: Dark-red glazed composition or steatite button-shaped bead or stud, with convex head and loop for suspension at rear.
Cultures/periods: Meroitic (?); Ptolemaic (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Meroitic Cemetery, Tomb-group 1/2893
Materials: glazed composition (?); steatite (?)
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 1.49 centimetres; Thickness: 1.02 centimetres (max)
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Acquisition date: 1912
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA51402
Registration number: 1912,1109.256