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Middle Kingdom
This collection of beads comes from a girdle that was found around the hips of a mummy. The original girdle (now deaccessioned) was made of two strings of black hematite (?) beads and seeds, joined together at intervals with tiny shells and beads of folded plam leaves.
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Title: Dish of beads from a girdle
Period: Middle Kingdom
Date: ca. 2030–1640 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, East of Pabasa, Radim, Burial 6A.X.B13, around hips, MMA excavations, 1918–19
Medium: Hematite(?), seeds, shell, palm leaves
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number: 19.3.123b
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