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Stone bead
Stone barrel bead
4 beads made from faience with green glaze (a); and a hard stone, probably granite (b-d) and in the form of a barrel. Found alongside 3 other beads in the same tomb, although not necessarily together as part of a single necklace. From tomb number 792 in the Sanam cemtery.
Length: 0.025 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
BCE
-
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.154b.1921
Primary reference Number: 150618
Oldadmincategory: B
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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