Necklace of Ball Beads and a Vase Amulet
Object type: Necklace, ball beads
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: Middle Kingdom–Early New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12–18
Date: ca. 2040–1640 B.C.
Medium: Faience, anhydrite
Blue faience beads; blue marble amulet
Dimensions: L. 35 cm (13 3/4 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Asasif
Locale: Courtyard CC 41, Tomb R 2
Locus: Burials P x
Excavation: MMA excavations, 1915–16
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1916
Accession year: 1916