- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- String of various small faience beads and one red ?glass bead. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/6/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Nubian
- Date
- Date collected
- 1911 - 1912
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1912, uncertain Purchased: 1945, uncertain Found unentered: Found unentered, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Faience Pottery, Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Length: max 190 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.7.5.2B Other numbers: 1/ 586 A
- Research and responses
Hathor also called Athyr, in ancient Egyptian religion, goddess of the sky, of women, and of fertility and love. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 17/8/2000]
1945.7.5.2B
String of various small faience beads and one red ?glass bead. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/6/2005]
1945.7.5.2B
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