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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)

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À propos du lot n° 141
Titre : Egyptian Garnet Bead Necklaces, PÉRIODE : 2133
Dimensions : 40-49cm long
Provenance : Provenance: Property from a Dutch private collection, The Netherlands, 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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