Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1966.1.596

Necklace of alternating tubular and flat circular clay beads. The glaze varies from bright turquoise tubular beads to dull brown flat beads. The beads are meant to resemble faience. Strung onto cotton string. [ASh [OPS move] 30/11/2016]

1966.1.596

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Necklace of alternating tubular and flat circular clay beads. The glaze varies from bright turquoise tubular beads to dull brown flat beads. The beads are meant to resemble faience. Strung onto cotton string. [ASh [OPS move] 30/11/2016]
Geographical reference
Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person
Field collector Charles Packard
PRM source Ipswich Museum
PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1966
Date collected
By 1966
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes
Material Clay, Material Bead, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Faience Pottery, Process Strung, Process Glazed
Dimensions
Diameter: max 5 mm of a bead, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 355 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1966.1.596

Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament