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beads

human history
  • Description

    beads. beads made from faience, carnelian, jasper, and steatite. String of black, green, blue (1), and red (5) beads. Nine larger beads measuring approximately 7 mm in length decorated with small pieces of faience. Guy Brunton Expedition number 300. Found in Tomb 5010 in 1931 at the neck of a burial (Brunton 1948: 57, XLIV, LXXIII).

  • Place
    Matmar/Aesiut/Asyut/Egypt
  • Field Collection Date
    1931
  • Accession Number
    1932.558
  • Other Id

    18795 (ethnology)

    31/5010 Neck 3 (excavation number)

  • Department

    Archaeology

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Images

  • beads, 1932.558, 18795, 31/5010 Neck 3, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 24 May 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • beads, 1932.558, 18795, 31/5010 Neck 3, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 24 May 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • beads, 1932.558, 18795, 31/5010 Neck 3, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 24 May 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • ornament 18795

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