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Glazed steatite beads & carnelian pendant

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Beads and pendant from the burial goods of a child of the Naqada I Period, in the early fourth millennium BC.The child wore a copper bangle on the left wrist, and glazed steatite beads and a carnelian pendant at the neck; behind the body was found a fish-shaped palette for grinding green eye paint.

Present location

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number

1909:322-3

Dating

NAQADA I

Archaeological Site

EL-MAHASNA

Category

BEAD

Material

CARNELIAN; STEATITE/SOAP STONE; GLAZE

Technique

CARVED; POLISHED

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