A String with Carnelian Beads (Treasure of Tod)

A String with Carnelian Beads (Treasure of Tod)
A String with Carnelian Beads (Treasure of Tod)
 

GEM Number

65821

Collection

Main Galleries

Period

Middle Kingdom

Dynasty

12

Description

A string of fifty-eight irregularly shaped beads of carnelian (a semi-precious gemstone). These beads may mostly have come from Mesopotamia. They were deposited, along with other artefacts, inside four copper-alloy caskets discovered in 1936 in the foundations underlying the Temple of the god Montu at Tod.

Region
Upper Egypt
Area
Luxor
Cornelian

Length

15.7 cm