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Description : THREE EGYPTIAN GARNET BEAD NECKLACES
MIDDLE KINGDOM - NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 2133-1070 B.C.
Restrung, two strings composed of ovoid garnet beads of various
sizes, the other with ovoid and spherical garnet beads and four
amethyst beads, 40-49cm long (3)
Provenance:
Property from a Dutch private collection, formed in the 1960s-70s.
Christie’s, London, 10-11 July, 1974, lot 377.
Said to have been in the collection of Flinders Petrie.
Literature:
Garnet beads were produced in Egypt from the Badarian period to the
end of the New Kingdom. According to Carol Andrews, garnet was
at its most popular in the Middle Kingdom and ‘the Egyptian word for
garnet was almost certainly ‘hemaget’: C. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian
Jewellery, London, 1990, p. 43.
There are similar garnet beads of the same period from Lisht, now in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 15.3.541.
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