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Description: | Carnelian and faience beads with additional long thin faience beads. Tarkhan was one of the Egyptian states main cemeteries with over 2000 graves and tombs dating from pre-dynastic Egypt in c.3100 BC and onwards throughout the Old Kingdom. It was excavated in 1913 by Flinders Petrie. Earliest graves have crouched inhumations directly into the sand but this became uncommon with the advent of the Old Kingdom practise of embalming.
Accession number: NCM 1913-106 | Subjects: | jewellery EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 4400BC-4133BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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