Beads
- Accession Number
- AB16
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Bead(s), String of beads
- Period
- New Kingdom
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt, Abydos
- Measurements
- Length: 535mm
- Number of Elements
- 1 string
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- Description
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A string of tubular and disc beads, which are probably from Abydos. Margaret Murray dated this group to the New Kingdom. 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, and was subsequently gifted to the Egypt Centre in 1997.
- Other Identity
- 59 (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: 27 May 2022
