IDENTIFIERS
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id:	53145
accession number:	E.398.1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Faience (glazed ware) bead or model mace head. The spiral decoration is the usual way that the Egyptians showed imitation stoneware, as seen from pottery vessels dating to the pre-dynastic period. Theis object is large for a bead and it is possible that it was an object intended to symbolise a traditional weapon. However, the function and in fact date remains uncertain. The type of material (faience) is typical of that produced in Meroe (Nubia) during the Roman period, for this reason the object has been dated to this period. The object is complete with little damage to the surface. The material consists of crushed quartz pebbles which are then glazed with a glass-like material.
object type: Bead with spiral decoration
title:	bead

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/53145





TECHNIQUES
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mouldmade
TECHNIQUES
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glazed

CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	100 - 400
creation date earliest:	100
creation date latest:	400
culture:	Roman


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.045



IMAGES

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format: jpeg
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width: 760 pixels

surrogate: mid
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width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
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width: 760 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_398_1932.jpg
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width: 250 pixels