Ancient Egyptian string of beads from Napata dated 750 – 500 BC

Three small green or blue faience Wadjet eye amulets, threaded on moden plastic wire with one blue or green faience cylinder bead and one barrel bead. As well as three copper alloy coiled wire beads which are corroded, one degraded faience cylinder bead made a stack of disc beads, three possibly red jasper cylinder beads, protruding from the copper alloy beads, fixed by the corrosion, and thirty three shell or bone ring beads.

Ancient Egyptian string of beads from Napata dated 750 – 500 BC

Object details

  • Latitude: 18.53
  • Longitude: 31.84