Advanced Search 
String of faience and stone beads
Egyptian
New Kingdom
1550–1070 B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Zawyet el-Aryan, Grave Z 218, debris
Medium/Technique
Faience and carnelian
Dimensions
Overall: 20.3 cm length of string x 0.4 cm diameter of cylinder bead (8 x 3/16 in.)
Diameter and length of carnelian barrel bead: 0.9 x 0.7 cm (3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Diameter and length of carnelian barrel bead: 0.9 x 0.7 cm (3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number11.2584
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Beads
DescriptionThis is a string of beads composed of twenty-one cylinder beads, seven carnelian ring beads, one carnelian barrel bead, and one lotus pendant.
ProvenanceFrom Zawyet el-Aryan, Grave Z 218. 1910-11: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
(Accession date: October 19, 1911)
(Accession date: October 19, 1911)