Shell bracelet
- Accession Number
- W4
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Predynastic case
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Bracelet/bangle
- Period
- Predynastic Period
- Naqada I to Naqada II
- Material
- Shell
- Provenance
- Egypt, Gebelein
- Measurements
- Diameter: 62mm | Depth: 13mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian
Licensing details
- Description
-
A white shell bracelet. The label says 'Neolithic 4812 Gebelein, Egypt'. Kemp states that shell bracelets were made from cutting a narrow ring from the base of a large gastropod (Conus) shell.
- Bibliography
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Needler, Winifred 1984. Predynastic and archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum: with a reexamination of Henri de Morgan's excavations based on the material in the Brooklyn Museum initially studied by Walter Federn and a special zoological contribution on the ivory-handled knife from Abu Zaidan by C. S. Churcher. Wilbour Monographs 9. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum. [pp. 314–315 for further information and references]. Kemp, Barry J. 1967. Shell bracelets in Egypt. In McBurney, C. B. M. (ed.), The Haua Fteah (Cyrenaica) and the Stone Age of the south-east Mediterranean, 374-375. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Wellcome Number
- A23962 | 19117 (check number)
- Other Identity
- 4812 (excavation number)
- Previous Owners
- George Henry Vize (1845–1914) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 26 Sep 2021