Medium: Shell, faience, carnelian, limestone, lapis lazuli
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:ca. 3300–3100 B.C.E.
Dimensions: Largest bead: 5/8 x 3/8 in. (1.6 x 0.9 cm)
Collections:
Museum Location: Pre-Dynastic, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Exhibitions:
Accession Number: 09.889.304
Image: CUR.09.889.304_erg3.jpg,
Catalogue Description: One hundred and four beads of different material. Twelve are of cut, but unshaped shell, two of them big and conical, eighty-one of shell, cut into rings or disks; five of greenish faience, one disk, two cylinders, one cone, one compressed spheroid; one bluish faience barrel; three of carnelian, one ring, one spheroid, one bicone; one lazuli blunt drop pendant; one big elongated cylinder of glazed limestone is the chief piece. Condition: Stringing modern.