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Jewelry element: glass beads

Six large glass barrel beads; gilt beneath outer surface of glass // five smaller gilt glass barrel beads // one gilt glass ring bead (cf. 29-11-345). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_56927b
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Jewelry & adornment-Beads
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7757 A, room IV
  • Material
    Glass
  • Dimensions
    large barrel beads Length 1 cm; smaller barrel beads Length 0.6 cm; fing bead Diameter 0.5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-11-395
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_7/4306
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_56927
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/25/1929
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    String of beads consisting of HUMFA_29-11-308 (five beads), HUMFA_29-11-395 (11 beads), and HUMFA_29-11-449 (three beads) now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_56927.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7757

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Institutions 1