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LOT 0461

Estimate
GBP (£) 400 - 600
EUR (€) 460 - 690
USD ($) 540 - 800

EGYPTIAN FAIENCE MUMMY BEAD NECKLACE
LATE NEW KINGDOM, 1295-1069 B.C.
18 1/8 in. (9.54 grams, 46 cm long).

Restrung designer necklace using tubular green-glazed beads in a double row, interspersed with small two-holed beads; the central feature a net-like composition of small brown and blue-glazed ring-shaped beads.

PROVENANCE:
By repute, 'Excavated at Gurob by Prof. Flinders Petrie. From a quantity of beadwork taken from the neck of a mummy'.
Ex 1920s UK collection.

LITERATURE:
Cf. faience necklaces and pendants with similar typology in Boyce, A., ‘Chapter II, Collar and necklace designs at Amarna: a preliminary study of fayence pendants’ in Kemp, B.J. (ed), Amarna Reports 6, pp.336-371, figs.11 lett.4a-b and 5, lett.a,g, p.338.

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