Faience bead necklace
- Accession Number
- EC250
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Body adornment case
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Bead(s), String of beads
- Period
- Middle Kingdom
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Number of Elements
- 1 string
Licensing details
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- Description
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A string of pendants of blue and spacers of black, blue and green faience and stone. There are five leaf-shaped pendants leaf-shaped (four in blue faience and one in stone), likely dating to the Middle Kingdom. The stringing of these has been reconstructed, but it is assumed that the items were found together in a group. Leaf-shaped pendants seem to have been popular from the Middle Kingdom. It is possible that as well as being attractive, the leaf shapes were also amuletic.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 16 Jan 2021