Necklace and shabti

Necklace and shabti

String of blue to green glazed faience tubular beads, with a plain white painted clay shabti. Both beads and figure are typical of rich burials in the first millennium BC, when the mummified body received a net cover of beads arranged in diamond pattern.

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002]

Margaret Murray, National Museum of Science and Art, General Guide III. Egyptian Antiquities, Dublin 1910.

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