Lotus Flower Bead Mold

Place of OriginEgypt, Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna)

Date2nd Millennium BCE

Dimensions1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (4.4 x 4.1 cm)

MediumClay

ClassificationUtilitarian Objects

Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society

Object number

1925.697

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Label TextExcavated in 1922 at Akhetaten (modern Amarna) by the Egypt Exploration Society, this clay mold was used to produce lotus flower-shaped beads. Lotus imagery was common in Amarna-period decoration. The mold was assigned to the Toledo Museum of Art through the EES’s formal division of finds from that excavation season.