Necklace

NECKLACE

This beautiful carnelian necklace is made up of five bead segments joined by small ivory plaques and comes from excavations at el-Riqqeh, a site in Middle Egypt. The red colour, which usually symbolises evil, is here a protection against fatal accidents. This idea is strengthened by the uppermost row of beads which has twenty uraei.

EL-RIQQEH

Inventory number E.4469

KMKG - MRAH

source: gl

obalegyptianmuseum.org

F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 69

La tierra del toro apis. Dioses, Reyes y Hombres del Egipto Faraonica (Exposition), Pamplona 1997, 94

J. Walgrave, Het labo van de verleiding. Geschiedenis van de Make-up - The Laboratory of Seduction. History of Make-up (Exposition), Antwerpen 1998, 64 nº 5