cornalina y amatista

Part of the jewellery and cosmetic items from the burial of a young woman, including this bead string, a calcite kohl jar and lid, calcite jar, slate palette and grinder, faience and cornelian bead string and a cornelian scarab amulet. One of the beads is in the shape of a hippotamus head. Intact burials are rare at all periods,and this group shows the range of personal goods owned by young, upper class women at Abydos in the late Old Kingdom.


CARNELIAN; AMETHYST
Old Kingdom
Abydos
 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN