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British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · jewelry

bead

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Description

Amuletic string: composed of seven garnet barrel beads, a quartz hawk amulet, an amethyst tear-drop-shaped pendant and a number of amethyst beads of various shapes. The latter include oblate, spherical, conical and barrel beads, short convex bicone, standard and long truncated convex bicone beads, two lenticular beads and a faceted bead; Of the lenticular beads… View more about description

Cross-references (2)

  • BM-Object Y_EA36472 tier-2
  • BM-Registration 1902,0412.172 tier-2
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