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Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art: Single-Strand Necklace

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Single-Strand Necklace

Medium: Faience
Place Collected: Thebes, Malkata, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1332-1292 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late XVIII Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 3/16 x 19 3/16 in. (0.5 x 48.8 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 48.66.40
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Image: Overall, 48.66.40_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006

Catalogue Description: Single strand faience necklace. In center green faience papyrus column amulet; on each side, separated by small groups of blue and yellow discoid beads, amulets of a "household god" (Oracular bust), horus and disk, nefer sign, and ending with four amulets of bust of "household god" in green and blue faience. Necklace clearly incomplete and probably assembled. Condition: Good.

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