String of Beads
E7781
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E7781 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G 106 |
| Date Made | 100 BCE-300 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Shell | Glass |
| Description | "17 small cowrie (cone- DCP, 1982) shells pierced longitudinally, separated by small spacers of gilt or blue glass and red paste, 19 in all. From the centre hangs a flat oval of mother of pearl, 0.053M in length, apparently a nose-guard. Restrung beads fround scattered in tomb." -Woolley and McIver, Karanog, the Romano-Nubian Cemetery. 1910:250-251 |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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