Bead and Amulet Necklace

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

Date18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE

DimensionsL: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

MediumEgyptian faience.

ClassificationJewelry

Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society

Object number

1925.721

Not on View

Label TextThis necklace of blue and green faience beads was likely among the two strings of colored beads excavated in 1923–1924 at Amarna by the Egypt Exploration Society. Though unnumbered in the original field records, its materials and museum accession context align with this group. It was distributed to the Toledo Museum of Art through the EES’s formal division of finds, which placed excavated objects from one of Egypt’s most significant sites into major museum collections.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.