Egyptian gold, glass and jasper beads

An image of Jewellery. Beads (5), representing flies back to back. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Gold, blue glass, inlaid with jasper, height 2.3 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1069 B.C. New Kingdom.

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Jewellery. Beads (5), representing flies back to back. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Gold, blue glass, inlaid with jasper, height 2.3 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1069 B.C. New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.67a.1939
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 619 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 70.45kB
Exposure time: 1/80
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2010:04:26 14:57:11

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Ancient Egypt antiquity bead beaded beads blue Egyptian Fitz_ANT flies fly glass gold inlaid inlay insects jasper jewellery neck piece necklace New Kingdom

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