Glass bead pendants
- Accession Number
- EC252
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Body adornment case
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Bead(s), String of beads
- Periods
- New Kingdom to Late Period
- Material
- Glass
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Number of Elements
- 7 beads
Licensing details
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- Description
-
Seven bead pendants of red and green glass. The likely date from the ate New Kingdom to the Late Dynastic periods. The longest bead is 54mm in length. These pendant drops may have been arranged as a simple string rather than in pendant form.
- Bibliography
-
Carol Andrews 1994 'Ancient Egyptian Jewellery' page 57
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 16 Jan 2021