Rosette Bead
Rosette Bead
Place of OriginEgypt, Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna)
Date2nd Millennium BCE
MediumMulticolor faience
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society
Object number
1925.687
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DescriptionFrom Amarna.
Label TextThis multicolored faience rosette bead was excavated in 1922 by the Egypt Exploration Society at Akhetaten (modern Amarna), the capital city of Pharaoh Akhenaten. It was part of a group of small ornaments and beads distributed to the Toledo Museum of Art in that year’s division of archaeological finds.
2nd Millennium BCE
Probably Late Helladic III, about the 14th-12th century BCE
18th-20th Dynasties (1558-1085 BCE)
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
20th Dynasty (1186-1070 BCE), about 1175 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
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