bracelet;
bead;
spacer-bar
- Museum number
- EA63446
- Description
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A bracelet: composed of four rows of tiny disc beads of various materials held at both ends by spacer-bars of dark-green glazed composition with horizontal ridging. The beads are of carnelian, lapis lazuli, green and turquoise-blue glazed composition and Egyptian blue strung in short sections of the same material which correspond in each row. There are also two tiny short barrels of black glazed composition among the discs. A few of the glazed beads may have turned to glass.
- Dimensions
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Length: 17.10 centimetres (each string)
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Weight: 6 grammes
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Width: 1.10 centimetres
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Depth: 0.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Also from this burial: bracelet (1931,1009.45), finger-ring (1931,1009.47).
Bibliography:
G. Brunton, ‘Matmar’ (London, 1948), Tomb register, pl.XXVIII; Bead register, pl.LXXIII.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA63446
- Registration number
- 1931,1009.46
