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.
Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number 1909:355 - 358
Dating OLD KINGDOM
Archaeological Site ABYDOS
Category BEAD
Material CARNELIAN; AMETHYST
Technique POLISHED; CARVED
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