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This necklace of gold rings is among a number of grave goods placed in the rich burial of a woman and child at Qurneh in Egypt, sometime in the 17th Dynasty. The necklace was placed in the child's coffin along with other jewellery.

The necklace was made of 215 small gold ring beads.

The child buried at Qurneh was about two and a half years old at death, too young for its gender to be identified from the bones. It is likely that the burial belongs to a mother and her child. Both had wealthy grave goods, all the more remarkable since the burial dates from a period when Egypt was politically divided and relatively impoverished.

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• Online ID: 000-180-001-475-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1909.527.11
• Date: 17th Dynasty
  2nd Intermediate Period: 17th Dynasty (around 1641 to 1539 BC)
  
• Material:
• Dimensions: 230 mm L
  
• What:
• Subject: Parure
  
• Who: Professor W.M. Flinders Petrie (Excavator)
  
• Where: Ancient Egypt, Qurna
  
• Event:
• Description: Necklace consisting of a string of two hundred and five small gold ring beads: Ancient Egyptian, from Qurna, 17th Dynasty
  
• References:
  • Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Qurneh. London: School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909. 
  • Qurneh / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, B.S.A.E. & B. Quaritch, 1909, 6 - 10 
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