Bead String
29-65-468B
From: Egypt | Dendereh
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 29-65-468B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Egypt | Dendereh |
| Locus | 13:198 c/xi | Probably from body of child beside adult. |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Glass | Faience | Steatite | Jasper | Turquoise | Carnelian |
| Iconography | fly | Hathor head | eye | lotus flower |
| Description | A variety of bead materials and shapes interspersed with amulets. Beads: Ring -- 1 blue glass. Multiple ring -- blue and green faience. Barrel -- glass, red and gray faience, 1 steatite. Drop -- faience. Flattened spheroid -- red jasper. Ribbed -- 1 red, 1 yellow, and 1 blue faience. Cylinder -- 1 turquoise. Disc -- blue faience. Ridged -- 2 carnelian. A few beads of carnelian (?) of irregular shapes. The material has been eaten into. Amulets: Eye -- 5 faience. Lotus flower -- 1 faience, 2 glass, 2 carnelian. Heart -- 1 carnelian. Hathor head -- 1 blue faience. Fly -- 2 faience. Menat -- 1 blue faience. Figures on plaques -- 5 blue faience. Pendants -- glass, jasper, faience. |
| Length | 0.565 m |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923 |
| Other Number | D965 - Field No SF |
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