bead
- Museum number
- EA63100
- Description
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A string consisting of many cylindrical disc beads: one long cylinder and one short cylinder. The material is green, translucent olivine mottled with black, but whereas some beads are almost entirely green, others are almost entirely black in colour. The long cylinder is very black with little green; the short cylinder is almost all translucent green.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1 centimetres
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Length: 39 centimetres
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Weight: 8 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Brunton identified the material of the long cylinder bead as serpentine.
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 48
Also from this burial: amuletic string with pendants (1930,0711.123), bead (1930,0711.122), pendants and beads (1930,0711.121).
Bibliography:
G. Brunton, ‘Mostagedda and the Tasian Culture’ (London, 1937), 75; Grave register, pl.XXXI; Bead corpus, pl.XXXIX, 75Q2.
- Location
- On display (G64/dc3)
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA63100
- Registration number
- 1930,0711.120
