String of Beads

E7883

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E7883
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G 361
Date Made 100 BCE-300 CE
Section Egyptian
Materials Quartz | Glass
Description

Gilt glass spheroids, blue glass discoids, quartz and haematite pendants and two

blue and white millefiori beads.45 in all. Selected from loose beads in tomb.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

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