The fourth necklace is made of several strings of faience beads tied together at both ends by a ring combining all the strings.
Posted on 04/30/2020 6:44:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 17th dynasty anthropoid coffin containing a mummy, along with a mud-brick offering chapel and a pile of mixed materials from funerary equipment, have been unearthed by a Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission in Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's West Bank.
The director of the mission, José Galán, explained that these objects were unearthed during excavation work carried out in the area located in front of the open courtyard of Djehuty's tomb (TT 11).
The coffin was carefully placed on the ground horizontally. It measures 1.75 by 0.33m, and was carved in wood cut from a single sycamore tree trunk, then coated with a whitewash and painted in red.
Inside the coffin was found the mummy of a 15- or 16-year-old girl resting on her right side. The mummy is in a bad conservation condition.
The mummy is wearing two earrings in one of her ears, both with a spiral shape and coated with a thin metal leaf, maybe copper.
It also had two rings, one made of bone and the other with a blue glass bead set on a metal base and tied with string. Four necklaces tied together with a faience clip are around the chest.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.ahram.org.eg ...
17th dynasty is what BC epoch?
My mummy was coffin before.
I gave her coff syrup.
Sorry...
Dear God don’t open it - it might bestow a curse on the world! oh too late...
OTOH, it might look around at the current situation, say “screw this” and go back to the underworld....
The ghost of Billy Mays could sell this.
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