Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

String of beads

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Accession: 32.2.27
Find spot: Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic, Badarian
Date: ca. 4000–3800 B.C.
Date range: 4000 BCE – 3800 BCE
Materials: ['bone', 'serpentinite', 'jasper (red)', 'carnelian', 'turquoise', 'lapis lazuli']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), String of beads (32.2.27). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/58865

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Beads, string. Predynastic, Badarian, ca. 4000–3800 B.C. Bone, serpentinite, jasper (red), carnelian, turquoise, lapis lazuli. L. 19 cm (7 1/2 in.). From: Tomb 3094, Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE/Brunton excavations, 1931. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.

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Found at Matmar

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