bead
- Museum number
- EA62533
- Description
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Beads and pebble: the string consists of one long barrel bead of bone, a mottled green and white pebble, possibly diorite, and twenty-two long convex bicone cornelian beads. The cornelian beads are mostly very pale, almost colourless, a characteristic of cornelians used during the Old Kingdom. Their borings are wide, a further distinctive feature of Old Kingdom manufacture.
- Dimensions
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Length: 40.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on diorite, see A. Lucas, ‘Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries’, 4th ed. (London, 1962), 409.
Also from this burial: amuletic string (1929,1015.532).
Bibliography:
Mostagedda, Tomb register, pl.XLV; Bead register, pl. XLIX; Bead corpus, pl.LVIII, 78C7, 9; G5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA62533
- Registration number
- 1929,1015.533
