- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Oval shaped faience bead with incised design one one surface. [SM (Verve) 3/11/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland Collection
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian
- Date collected
- June 1911
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1937
- Materials and processes
- Material Faience Pottery, Material Bead, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 8 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1937.56.53
Search terms: Bead, Pottery, Figure, Writing, Insignia, Insect Figure, Inscription, Seal
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