String of faience disc beads

String of faience disc beads, from the intact burial of a child at Abydos. The single string was found round the child's body, which was covered with cloth, and supplied with four pottery vessels for food and drink in the afterlife.

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From the division of finds excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund in Abydos. Given to the museum in 1910.


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

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