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

Five small green or blue faience openwork Wadjet eye amulets, threaded on modern plastic wire with one red jasper melon bead which is spheroid with grooves cut into it and three degraded blue faience cylinder beads, and two barrel faience beads, now red in colour which may have once been yellow glazed.

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

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  • Latitude: 18.53
  • Longitude: 31.84