#broad collar

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~ Wesekh Broadcollar.

Period: Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty

Date: 2465–2323 B.C.

Place of origin: Egypt, Giza, Tomb G 2422 D, Tomb G 2416 D III, & Tomb G 1102

Medium: Faience

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Necklace - Louvre Collection

Inventory Number: E 2152 New Kingdom (-1550 - -1069) Location Information: Location Unlisted

Description:

Ousekh necklace; modern assembly

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Broad Collar of Wah - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 40.3.2 Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), Mummy, in wrappings on chest, MMA excavations, 1920

Description:

This broad collar is one of the finest examples of its type from the early Middle Kingdom. It was carefully designed using beads of diminishing lengths to create the curved form. Although a few areas needed reinforcing with modern thread, the stringing is almost entirely original. The collar is part of a set of funerary jewelry belonging to Wah, the estate manager of Meketre.

Wah's broad collar, anklets, and bracelets were made as funerary ornaments for the burial and were found in the layers of linen wrapping that were closest to the body; the collar had been tied around the neck, the bracelets and anklets had been laid over the lower arms and legs. They are all made of a ceramic material called Egyptian faience. Beaded jewelry sets of this type are illustrated in the object friezes that decorate many Middle Kingdom coffins, and fragmentary examples have been found in numerous tombs of the period.

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Collar; amulet - British Museum Collection

Inventory Number: EA67171 Second Intermediate (Pan Grave) - Early New Kingdom (Dynasty 18) Location Information: Giza (Governorate): Saqqara (Memphis)

Description:

Collar: composed of sixty-four long thin cylinders of green with some blue glazed composition strung vertically to form a collar. The beads are graded in size, the shortest at the ends. From the longest cylinder at the centre hangs a green glazed composition amulet of indeterminate shape; it is possibly just a notched cylinder. At each end of the collar is strung a green glazed composition oblate bead.

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Collar - British Museum

Inventory Number: EA63487 Third Intermediate, 945BC-700BC (circa) (circa) Location Information: Asyut (Governorate): Matmar

Description:

Collar of blue glazed composition beads and open-work amulets in form of goddess holding a papyrus sceptre within naos.

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Collar - British Museum Collection

Inventory Number: EA59334 New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18 Location Information: Minya, el- (Governorate): Amarna, el-

Description:

Glazed composition open-work broad collar: the top row represents yellow and blue mandrake fruits; the middle row is composed of green date palm leaves and the lowest of yellow, white and mauve lotus petals. Between the pendants are strung tiny disc beads in red, blue, mauve or yellow. Even the two triangular terminals into which the stringing threads pass to emerge as a single united cord at each side of the collar take the shape of a lotus inlaid in red, yellow, blue and green to indicate the individual petals. All the elements were made in open moulds, as their backs are flat and not detailed.

It is highly likely that jewellery elements depicting fruit, flowers and parts of plants had an amuletic significance, since all growing plants were inherently symbolic of new life and some flowers actually open each morning, reconfirming the idea of resurrection. This collar was found complete but the original order of stringing could not be determined.

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Collar; bead; pendant - British Museum Collection

Inventory Number: EA41668 Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11 Location Information: Qena (Governorate): Luxor West Bank (Thebes): Deir el-Bahri (Thebes)

Description:

Broad collar: composed of one row of horizontally strung beads and five vertically strung rows, two semicircular terminals and fourteen mummiform pendants, all of glazed composition. The long cylindrical beads are arranged vertically in five rows (bright-blue, white, purple, bright-blue, white) which are closely joined together. Above them is a sixth row of cylinder beads of purple, white and bright-blue glazed composition, strung lengthwise. The two bright-blue terminals, one of them broken, are pierced by six holes in the straight side and one in the curved side. The fourteen bright-blue glazed composition pendants are irregularly shaped, and some are concave in the middle; all are pinched in at each end. They are all flat on the reverse.

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Collar; bead; pendant - British Museum Collection

Inventory Number: EA40928 Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 11, 2020BC (circa) (circa) Location Information: Qena (Governorate): Luxor West Bank (Thebes): Deir el-Bahri (Thebes)

Description:

A broad collar ('wesekh'): consisting of five rows of beads, two semicircular terminals and seven mummiform pendants, all of glazed composition. Four of the rows are of vertically strung cylindrical beads connected only at the ends. The longer beads are in the centre of the collar, the shorter ones at the sides. The top row is of white glazed composition, the second of bright-blue, the third of white and the outermost row of purplish glazed composition. The last colour, not common until the Eighteenth Dynasty is produced from manganese oxide. The fifth, topmost, row is composed of a single string of bright-blue and white cylinder beads strung lengthwise. In the centre of each of the five rows is a short loop of bright-blue glazed composition disc beads. The seven bright-blue glazed composition mummiform pendants are attached to the bottom row of beads. The two bright-blue semicircular terminals are undecorated. Each has a ridge along the underside which is pierced by six holes through which the threads holding the rows of beads are knotted.