Beads

Part of the jewellery and cosmetic items from the burial of a young woman, including this bead string, a calcite kohl jar and lid, calcite jar, slate palette and grinder, faience and cornelian bead string and a cornelian scarab amulet. Intact burials are rare at all periods, and this group shows the range of personal goods owned by young, upper class women at Abydos in the late Old Kingdom.