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British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · jewelry

necklace (?)

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Description

Necklace (?): A string composed of thirty shell-shaped amuletic pendants of green feldspar, pierced horizontally at the top and convex on both faces, three felspar conical beads, and beads of many other different materials. There are a number of glass beads which are New Kingdom rather than Middle Kingdom in date: five bright-blue translucent glass beads (one… View more about description

Cross-references (2)

  • BM-Object Y_EA16944 tier-2
  • BM-Registration 1886,0605.26 tier-2
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