Reisner, George Andrew [Editor]: The early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr (Part 1) (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1908)

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List of beads and other ornaments.
Cylindrical beads1 (tube beads) both short and long:
1. Black steatite and white stone beads: N. 1532 with the gold find; 1501, 4 with seal
cylinder; 1603 in debris; 1531 p at neck; 1634 in debris; 1513, on skeleton B; 1562, 2
with seal cylinder; 1535 at neck; 1529, 5 ; 303b 6; 3091, 1 one bead.
2. Fine green stone beads, small: N. 1532, with gold find; 1604, 1 with seal cylinder.
3. Haematite: N. 1532, Pl. 8, no. 2 one bead, large bore.
4. Carnelian: N. 1532, Pl. 8, rows 1, 2 and 3 excepting the middle beads; N. 3031, 6
one bead; 3013, 14.
5. Blue glazed beads: N. 3091.
Barrel-shaped beads:
1. Carnelian: N. 1532 with the gold find, Pl. 7 nos. 1—2; 1584, 5; 1604, 1; 3061, 2;
3018, 4 ; 3°3b 6-
2. Haematite: N. 1532, Pl. 7 no. 3.
3. Blue glazed beads: N. 1584,5b; N. 1604, 1; 3018 4; 3017, 41c; 3013, 14.
4. Amethyst: N. 1532, Pl. 8, 4; 3013, 14.
Spherical beads:
1. Blue glazed beads: N. 1532, Pl. 8, 5 J N. 1604, 1; 3018, 4; 3013, 14.
Disc beads (the most common form from the predynastic period down to the latest times):
1. Carnelian: N. 1532, Pl. 8, 13—16; 3061, 2; 3018, 4; 3031, 6; 3091, 1; 3025, 3.
2. Garnet: N. 1532, Pl. 8, 10—n; 1584, 5a; 3025, 3.
3. White beads (shell or limestone ?): N. 1603, ; 3018, 4; 3061, 2.
4. Blue glazed beads: N. 1532, Pl. 8, 12; 3018, 4; 3013, 14; 3061, 2; 3091, 1.
5. Steatite (?): N. 1603, Pl. 42, 1;
6. Syenite (?): N. 1532, Pl. 7, 1.
For metal beads of various forms see N. 1532, Pl. 6 and 7 (gold), 3031, 14 and 3061, 2 (both
copper).
Amulets. The beads of unusual form and the amulets2 are: syenite pendant, N. 1532, Pl. 7 no. 1;
speckled stone pendant, N. 3061, 2; limestone pendant, N. 3018, 4 5 flat shell pendant, N. 1562, 9 5
bevelled carnelian bead, N. 3018,4; limestone amulet (animal head), N. 3031, 6; blue glazed
amulet (crouching animal), N. 3061, 2; shell used as bead, N. 1603, Pl. 42, no. 1; shell-shaped
beads, N. 3018, 4 (shell or limestone), N. 3013, 14 (carnelian).3 See also the shell-shaped, the
spiral, and the barrel-shaped gold heads from N. 1532 and the bull and the gazelle amulets
from the same tomb.
Bracelets. Bracelets:
1. Slate: N. 1532, Pl. 9; 1512 fragment; 1592 two in debris; 1513, p. 52; 1584, 2.
2. Flint: N. 1532, Pl. 9; 1584, 3.
1 For beads of the first two dynasties cf. IIR. T.t xxxm, 16—21 (m. 1), xxxvm, 8—29 (cem. W), xlii, 79—8r (cem. X), xliv, io, 40—43
(tomb of TV-T I Abydos, p. 16, Pl. 52 (M 14 and 17); II Abydos, vni, 153—170.
2 For late predynastic and early dynastic amulets see Naqada, Pl. 58.
3 The slate comb-like pendant in N. 1584 (Pl. 41 c) is too large to have been a mere pendant.