String of beads of various shapes including disc-shaped ostrich eggshell; carnelian, amethyst and haematite.

On modern string; Newberry Peet typed catalogue card says Beni Hasan 12th Dynasty. Label says dynasties 12 - 18; register gives a locus of '37 w' which matches with Dorothy Downe's description of a string of beads from Esna Tomb 37B dated to the Middle Kingdom.

Accession Register entry 13 December 1905: "string of various beads, shell, glazed, amethyst, carnelian '37w'  XII-XVIII dynasties".

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String of beads of various shapes including disc-shaped ostrich eggshell; carnelian, amethyst and haematite. On modern string; Newberry Peet typed catalogue card says Beni Hasan 12th Dynasty. Label says dynasties 12 - 18; register gives a locus of '37 w' which matches with Dorothy Downe's description of a string of beads from Esna Tomb 37B dated to the Middle Kingdom. Accession Register entry 13 December 1905: "string of various beads, shell, glazed, amethyst, carnelian '37w' XII-XVIII dynasties".

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