Bead: E.36c.1898

Current Location: Gallery 20

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Bead

Categories

Jewellery

Description

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.

Measurements and weight

Length: 3.5 cm

Find spot

Hierakonpolis Egypt

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1898) by Egyptian Research Account

Dating

Predynastic
Early Dynastic Period
About -3000 - About -2500

Techniques used in production

References and bibliographic entries

Hierakonpolis II

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.36c.1898
Primary reference Number: 49594
Oldadmincategory: B
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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