Black and white disk beads from a mummy net, Nubian

An image of Jewellery. Beads. Black and white disk beads from a mummy net, the black beads forming hieroglyphs, part embedded in wax, part restrung, and 1 tubular bead. Production Place: Nubia. Find Spot: Sanam Cemetery, Meroe, Sudan. Length, lapis bead, 0.016 m, circa 750 B.C. Meroitic Period.

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Jewellery. Beads. Black and white disk beads from a mummy net, the black beads forming hieroglyphs, part embedded in wax, part restrung, and 1 tubular bead. Production Place: Nubia. Find Spot: Sanam Cemetery, Meroe, Sudan. Length, lapis bead, 0.016 m, circa 750 B.C. Meroitic Period.

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Accession Number: E.174.1921
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Photographer name: Mark Box
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ISO Speed: 100
Captured: 2012:02:22 14:21:11

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8th Century African Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beaded beading beads beadwork black and white Egyptian Fitz_ANT hieroglyphics hieroglyphs jewellery Meroitic Period mummy mummy net mummy trappings Nubian Sudan textile wax

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