cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/E.23.60
Accession_Number | E.23.60 | ||||||||
Shape | Necklace | ||||||||
Shape_description | A long necklace comprising of hundred of very small shell beads. | ||||||||
Material | Shell | ||||||||
Fabric | Egyptian | ||||||||
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Decoration | The beads are varying in colour but the prominant colour is green. The string the beads are on is actually too long for the beads so it likely not the original string suggesting that these beads were probably not all worn together. | ||||||||
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Condition | The necklace is well preserved although several of the beads have become rough and/or chipped. | ||||||||
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Provenance | Esna | ||||||||
Period | 3rd Intermediate Period: 22 dynasty | ||||||||
Date | 945-712 | ||||||||
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Height | 80.8 from tip to tip | ||||||||
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Location | Egypt | ||||||||
Edited_by | Leigh; Kinsey; Julia | ||||||||
Date_edited | 11.09.2002; 11.01.2006; 06.05.2016 |