TAA i.1.256.4m

Caption
Object card of collar of four strings of beads
Creator
Howard Carter
Room
Burial chamber
Object(s) referenced (by Carter number)
256.4m
Material
Card
Ink
Pencil
Measurements
12.5 cm x 20.7 cm (h x w)
Season
4th Season (1925–1926)
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University of Oxford

Transcription

256, 4.M. A collar of four strings of beads.

 

POSITION:

NECK: Round front of throat.

Forms sixth and last group on neck, over a few wrappings

before reaching the flesh.

 

DIMENSIONS:

L. <17 cents. (each string of beads)>

 

DESCRIPTION:

An <amuletic> colloe/<ar> of four strings of beads, of gold, green, violet, black 

glass and gold; 171 in number, strung in the following

order: gold, green glass, gold, black or violet glass, gold,

green glass, and gold repeated.

 

REMARKS:

This small collar of beads seems to be of purely amuletic

character.

Cf. Lacau, Sarcophages, pls. <LII. 458, coffin, 28037 (46). [ 𓂀 ] <(?)>>