Beads

String of large ball beads painted brown, grey and white. At the centre are two cylinder beads, one being faience; also a funnel bead and a cowrie shell. With an original "keep this with the object" label that says E8. Label says presented by the Egyptian Research Account, E.8, 42. Abydos. Accession register says "24.9.00.140. Beads, pendants and gold plated ring. E8, 42. Late XXIII Dyn." From John Garstang's excavations at Abydos for the Egyptian Research Account. Tomb E42 is described by Garstang in the published account of the excavation "This tomb and those adjoining it were much disturbed, and plunderers had made connecting holes between their underground chambers, so that the separation of the groups and their dating is rendered difficult. Possibly the objects here pictured may belong to the XXth dynasty, or just later; with them was the bronze Sa amulet on PL. XVI, and some non-characteristic beads. The vulture is a specimen of delicate work in carved limestone: on the under side it is provided with a threading hole suggesting its use as a pectoral. The dummy vases of Se-Ast are covered with acacia gum, which has darkened by age, through which the black letters show but faintly." (1901, p. 15).