Amulets and beads

Part of the jewellery and cosmetic items from the burial of a young woman, including this bead string, a calcite kohl jar and lid, calcite jar, slate palette and grinder, faience and cornelian bead string and a cornelian scarab amulet. One of the beads is in the shape of a hippotamus head. Intact burials are rare at all periods,and this group shows the range of personal goods owned by young, upper class women at Abydos in the late Old Kingdom.