Barrel Bead
56.20.627.21
Information
Blue glazed barrel bead.
Glued to card by Flaxman Spurrell with other amulets and beads excavated by Flinders Petrie at Tell el Amarna in 1892 to illustrate jewellery types. Annotated in red "TELL EL AMARNA. D.XVIII. Dug up by Petrie. F.C.J.S'.
Compare with G. Brunton Mostagedda and the Tasian culture (1937), pl.LVIII.