Bidspirit auction | Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace String

Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace String with Amulets - Amarna Period, 1353-1336 B.C. Restrung using mainly annular and tubular beads with a large central heart amulet, interspersed with various amulets including: poppy seed, rosette, lotus flower, two Thoth baboons, djed pillar, Bes, and others. Cf. faience necklaces and pendants with similar typology in Boyce, A., ?Chapter II, Collar and necklace designs at Amarna: a preliminary study of fayence pendants? in Kemp, B.J. (ed), Amarna Reports 6, 1955, pp.336-371, figs.11.3-11.4.-11.5. 10.4 grams, 40 cm (15 3/4 in.). From the vendor's grandfather's collection, formed in the 1950s; thence by family descent circa 1974.