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Description: | Carnelian and faience beads, graded in size from small on the ends to larger in the middle. Riqqeh is modern day Ar-Riqqah and is situated in close vicinity to Tarkhan.
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 1913-121 | Subjects: | jewellery EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 2200BC-1600BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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