String of Beads

E7868

Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E7868
Current Location Rome Gallery - On Display
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G 527
Date Made 100 BCE-300 CE
Section Egyptian
Materials Glass
Description

String of dark blue facetted glass beads imitating sapphires with gilded glass beads imitating gold.

Length 47.5 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

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