Bead-making material found in the temple precinct area at Hierakonpolis, mounted on cards. Main card bears 35 small flint drills; 11 unfinished carnelian beads; 20 carnelian chips for ditto; 1 unfinished garnet bead and 6 garnet chips; 1 flake of amethyst; 3 unfinished rock crystal beads; 1 unfinished obsidian bead and 2 obsidian chips; 3 unfinished ostrich-egg shell beads; there were also five loose unfinished obsidian beads (according to the original register). The group also contains 17 other cards of mounted points (304), and 166 loose borers, chips of crystal (1), amethyst (1), ostrich egg-shell (1), 2 white flint borers, siltstone fragment, undrilled serpentine bead, 5 copper nails, lump of copper and large number of refuse cores and flakes of carnelian and chert. Two obsidian beads analysed by Laurent Bavay and Thierry De Putter, Brussels, 1997.
