Bead String

Unknown artist

Glass | Faience | Steatite | Jasper | Turquoise | Carnelian

Penn Museum

A strand of colorful beads and amulets is laid out in a serpentine shape against a plain background. A ruler is visible at the bottom. A variety of bead materials and shapes interspersed with amulets. Beads: Ring -- 1 blue glass. Multiple ring -- blue and green faience. Barrel -- glass, red and gray faience, 1 steatite. Drop -- faience. Flattened spheroid -- red jasper. Ribbed -- 1 red, 1 yellow, and 1 blue faience. Cylinder -- 1 turquoise. Disc -- blue faience. Ridged -- 2 carnelian. A few beads of carnelian (?) of irregular shapes. The material has been eaten into. Amulets: Eye -- 5 faience. Lotus flower -- 1 faience, 2 glass, 2 carnelian. Heart -- 1 carnelian. Hathor head -- 1 blue faience. Fly -- 2 faience. Menat -- 1 blue faience. Figures on plaques -- 5 blue