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Description: | Two horizontal strands of unglazed long turquoise beads (16 on upper row) with a 'zigzag' strand of glazed small flat circular beads between them. Fringe of 14 long turquoise glass beads with four white and two black flat circular beads on the end. Threaded on white cotton length, knotted at the ends. Excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1886.
Tell Nabesheh was occupied from about the XII Dynasty onwards but the present ruins date from much later. The cemetery that was uncovered by Flinders Petrie dates to the XXVI to the XXX Dynasties and he identifies it with the ancient necropolis of Am. A scarab factory was discovered where scarabs were made from pottery.
"I am sending you the promised mummy-beads, charmingly re-strung by my friend Miss Bradbury, one of the local Hon Secs for Manchester - who has made the patterns of ancient Egyptian pectoral ornaments and collars quite a study ... It is necessary to speciify that they are re-strung as otherwise they would be somewhat misleading." (Amelia B. Edwards to Wallis 18/7/1888)
Accession number: NCM 1888-63/(a) | Subjects: | jewellery death EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 666BC-527BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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