Beaded Girdle with Cowrie Shells and Amulets - Egypt Museum
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Beaded Girdle with Cowrie Shells and Amulets - Egypt Museum
British Museum. EA59645 Strung some four-and-forty centimetres in length and weighing scarcely fifty grams, this Middle Kingdom girdle (c. 2055–1650 B.C.), said to be from Thebes, is a miniature treasury of electrum, silver, and semi-precious stone. Six hollow electrum cowries, each painstakingly punched in two halves, soldered, and pierced for threading. With oblate lapis-lazuli and green-feldspar beads, amethyst spheres, and truncated bicones …
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