Bead

ca. 2649-2061 BCE (Old Kingdom-First Intermediate Period)

1 cm 1.9 cm 1.1 cm

Citation

Faience beads were used as decorative elements throughout Egyptian history. This mold-made blue bead is decorated with dot-and-line patterns often characteristic of the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, but it could also be dated to a later period.

Artifact

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31944
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object
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normalized
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Joseph Abemayor, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
language
language
en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.236

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