IDENTIFIERS
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id:	49593
accession number:	E.36b.1898

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Quartz cylinder bead, with a hole through the centre, suggesting that the object was sewn onto something. The exact function of this object is unknown. There are three similar objects, of which this is one, housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum and from the Main Temple Deposit at Hierakonpolis.
title:	bead

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49593





TECHNIQUES
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carved
TECHNIQUES
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drilled

CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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culture:	Predynastic
culture:	Early Dynastic Period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 3.2



CITATIONS
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Hierakonpolis II
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