Egypt
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- Daily Photo - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Serekh Bracelet
UC25976 Blue glazed faience serekh bracelet composed of two end pieces with fastening holes and thirteen hawks on serekhs, also twenty-four spacer beads Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Gizeh Measurements - length 20.0 cms width 2.2 cms...
- Daily(ish) Photo - Early Ceramics From The Petrie
UC10774. Black-topped pot. Type B86M,with pot mark. Height 11.3 ins, width 9.8 ins. Found at El Amrah. Predynastic Period (3100BCE-5300BCE) UC10702. Decorated pot, type D67B. Height 17.5 ins diameter 22.0 ins. (If you look up this vessel from the above...
- Daily Photo: Jewellery From The Petrie
UC1006. Complete blue faience ring. Openwork bezel: udjat-eye. Late Eighteenth Century. Found at Amarna. UC1040. Yellow faience ring bezel, with inlaid blue and red. cf UC 1871. Late 18th Dynasty. Found at Amarna. UC10803. String of beads; shell...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Clothing from the Petrie Museum
I've written a user guide to the database for my own personal use, but I'll post it at some point next week, for anyone else who might find it useful.
UC17743. Part of network dress of blue and black faience beads mostly cylinder and two blue and black faience breast 'caps', also quantity loose beads, and two strings of Mitra beads, probably part of the original dress. 5th Dynasty? Qau.
UC31182. Linen tunic made in one piece of material from waist to feet, lapped round and sewn down the edge - fringe for letting out? Two pieces sewn on which pass over the shoulders, and continue out into long sleeves. Gap at front and back closed by tying. No date. Apparently unprovenanced.
UC31183. Linen tunic of a much finer, more transparent weave than UC31182, and in a poorer condition. In one piece of material from waist to feet, lapped round and sewn down the edge. Two pieces sewn on which pass over the shoulders, and continue out into long sleeves. 5th Dynasty. Deshasheh
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
With my thanks
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
With my thanks
- Daily Photo - String Of Faience Beads
UC35614 String of faience beads: one short cylinder, nine hemispherical (semi-cone), one hundred and twenty eight spheroids (balls); all with large perforations, some retain blue-green glaze, some are blackened, some eroded. Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE)...
- Daily Photo - String Of Beads
Mixed string of beads: blue glass scaraboid, three blue-green glass barrels, four blue-green faience barrels, one larger faience barrel, two carnelian barrels, two large carnelian barrels, 21 small carnelian spheroids, one blus glass spheroid, five blue-green...
- Daily Photo - Serekh Bracelet
UC25976 Blue glazed faience serekh bracelet composed of two end pieces with fastening holes and thirteen hawks on serekhs, also twenty-four spacer beads Period - Dynasty 1 (2890BCE-3100BCE) Found at - Gizeh Measurements - length 20.0 cms width 2.2 cms...
- Daily(ish) Photo - Early Ceramics From The Petrie
UC10774. Black-topped pot. Type B86M,with pot mark. Height 11.3 ins, width 9.8 ins. Found at El Amrah. Predynastic Period (3100BCE-5300BCE) UC10702. Decorated pot, type D67B. Height 17.5 ins diameter 22.0 ins. (If you look up this vessel from the above...
- Daily Photo: Jewellery From The Petrie
UC1006. Complete blue faience ring. Openwork bezel: udjat-eye. Late Eighteenth Century. Found at Amarna. UC1040. Yellow faience ring bezel, with inlaid blue and red. cf UC 1871. Late 18th Dynasty. Found at Amarna. UC10803. String of beads; shell...