name-bead
- Museum number
- EA59603
- Description
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An oblate bead of buff steatite: inscribed around its circumference with a text between two lines. The wide circular boring was made from one face only.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.96 centimetres (max)
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Length: 1.35 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Tjan (see H. Gauthier, ‘Le Livre des Rois d’Égypte. Recueil de titres et protocols royaux, noms propres de rois, reines, princes et princesses, parents de rois, noms de pyramides et de temples solaires. Mémoires publiés par les members de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire’ II, 38 = ‘Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology’ 25 (London,1903), 358; ibid. 27 (1905), 101-2 ) was the queen of Sobkhotpe IV (see 'Cambridge Ancient History' II,, part 1, 3rd Edition (Cambridge, 1970-77), 50-1; ‘Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology’ 25 (London,1903), 134-5; J. von Beckerath, 'Abriss der Geschichte des alten Ägypten' (Munich, 1971), 29 ), probably one of the last kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty to rule the whole of Egypt.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair (surface worn in a few places)
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA59603
- Registration number
- 1933,0628.2
