beads, pendants

Reconstructed bead broad collar; mould made glazed faience beads. 83 bunches of grapes; 47 white petals; 57 red petals; 27 red dates; 30 yellow mandrakes; 13 yellow dates; 43 turquoise pendants; 12 green and blue corn flowers; 23 green palm-leafs. Some beads broken. Eight rows of beads. Conservation revealed a turquoise bead (11th from right) to have a cartouche, possibly of Tutankhamun or Amenhotep III.

Amarna

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() 18th Dynasty - () 18th Dynasty

circa 1550 BC - circa 1295 BC

LDUCE-UC1957

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology