Bead necklace
- Accession Number
- AB75
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Jewellery case
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Necklace | Jewellery, Bead(s), String of beads
- Period
- Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty
- Twenty-second Dynasty
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt, Abydos
- Number of Elements
- 1
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- Description
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A necklace of multicoloured faience beads with papyrus sceptre amulets. Margaret Murray dated this to the Twenty-second Dynasty, likely from Abydos. The object was gifted to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by John Bancroft Willans, a subscriber of the Egypt Exploration Fund/Society, who received the object in 1903. It was subsequently gifted to the Egypt Centre in 1997.
- Other Identity
- 2 (Margaret Murray list)
- Previous Owners
- Egypt Exploration Society | John Bancroft Willans (1881–1957) | University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Acquisition
- Gift, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth (24 Mar 1997)
- Last modified: 29 Jul 2022