Girdle with gold and lapis wallet-shaped beads
Object type: Girdle, wallet
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Medium: Gold, lapis lazuli

Dimensions: L. of girdle 81.3 cm (32 in.); Largest lapis lazuli bead: L. 1.5 cm (9/16 in); w. 1.2 cm (1/2 in); th. 0.3 cm (1/8 in)
Geography: From|Probably from  |  Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Wadi Qabbanat el-Qurud
Locale: Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III (Wadi D, Tomb 1)
Credit line: Fletcher Fund, 1926; Purchase, Frederick P. Huntley Bequest, 1958, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1982
Accession year: 1926