Eleven strings of blue and green glazed faience beads, mainly disc shaped but some long cylinder beads. Some may have been jewellery (of earlier date?) and others from a bead net placed over a mummy. From Esna grave 99 E'05. Dated to Dynasty 22 in the 1905 museum register.

CONDITION NOTE (1998): Cracked, broken, concretions, surface dirt. 10 strings tied together at one end, 1 string loose.

Catalogue card: Eight strings of beads. One of cylindrical blue beads, Seven of discoid beads, blue, red, brown and green. All of faience. Esna. Dynasty 18. Good technique. Good preservation.

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Eleven strings of blue and green glazed faience beads, mainly disc shaped but some long cylinder beads. Some may have been jewellery (of earlier date?) and others from a bead net placed over a mummy. From Esna grave 99 E'05. Dated to Dynasty 22 in the 1905 museum register. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Cracked, broken, concretions, surface dirt. 10 strings tied together at one end, 1 string loose. Catalogue card: Eight strings of beads. One of cylindrical blue beads, Seven of discoid beads, blue, red, brown and green. All of faience. Esna. Dynasty 18. Good technique. Good preservation.

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