Ancient Egyptian string of beads from Saqqara

String of various glass, faience and stone beads and amulets. Strung on modern thread. Total of 94 beads. Includes:
Two faience cylinder beads, subdivided as ring beads
59 blue or grey faience cylinder and barrel beads of various sizes
Five blue faience ring beads of sizes
13 blue faience spheroid beads of various sizes
One blue faience disc bead
One blue faience disc bead with triangular cross section
One green faience double ring bead
Three glass spheroid beads, with multicoloured circular designs of differing sizes and colours, one damaged
One blue glass faceted ring bead
One blue glass double ring bead
One carnelian spheroid bead; 2 quartz shperoid bead
One black and white barrel bead, possibly diorite
One blue faience papyrus sceptre amulet
One blue faience amulet
One blue faience irregular shaped pendant

Ancient Egyptian string of beads from Saqqara

Object details

  • Reference: BOLMG:1971.33.A
  • Material: carnelian diorite faience glass quartz stone
  • Excavator: W.B. Emery
  • Object name: string of beads
  • Dimensions: Length: 477mm , Width: 53mm , Depth: 20mm , Length (loose bead): 15mm , Width (loose bead): 15mm , Depth (loose bead): 14mm
  • Site: Saqqara
  • Latitude: 29.871111
  • Longitude: 31.216389