XIV. Beads, Bracelets, Toilet Dishes, etc.

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el-Amrah, p. 18 b 28, copper finger ring, middle predynastic.
el-Amrah, p. 21 b 62, three copper wire bracelets, late middle predynastic.
el-Amrah, p. 21 b 210, copper bracelet, late middle predynastic.
Diospohs, p. 34 tomb B 378, copper bracelet on wrist, late predynastic.
Naqada, p. 27 tomb 1248, copper bracelet, very late predynastic.
Diospolis, p. 32 tomb B 57, copper wire bracelets, very late predynastic.
el-Amrah, p. 54 tomb X 51, copper ring, very late predynastic.
el-Amrah, p. 16 tomb a 67, two copper rings and a small chain, late predynastic.1
Naqada, p. 28 tomb 1480, two thin oval sheets of copper punctured in lines (cf. gold
capsule in N. 1532 above), date uncertain possibly late predynastic.
3. Summary.
This material shows that during the latter part of the middle predynastic period, we have Flint
with certainty copper daggers, spear heads, harpoons, pins, needles, wire bracelets and rings, ^displaced.
In the late predynastic period, a number of copper implements have come into use, chisels,by copi>er'
adzes, axes, tweezers, etc.; and flint daggers, knives and lance-heads and bone harpoons have
apparently disappeared. In the first dynasty, the Egyptians are in possession of a full equip-
ment of copper weapons, implements and ornaments and retain only degenerated ceremonial
forms of the old flint weapons and implements.

XIV. BEADS, BRACELETS, TOILET DISHES, etc.
A list of beads and other ornaments found in the two cemeteries is given below. The
only points which need be noted especially are:
1. The copper bracelets and rings and the gold bracelets and rings are thin hammered charade,
fistic
strips which seem to have overlaid wood or cement while the predynastic metal bracelets ornaments,
are usually hammered wire.
2. Flint, slate and other stone bracelets are new and characteristic of this period. They
imitate in form the older bone and ivory bracelets, which still occur.
3. Long cylindrical or barrel-shaped beads of stone are far more numerous than in the
predynastic periods. These long beads were probably bored by a metal (copper) drill
in the same manner as the stone cylinders.2 3 The slender tube beads, or cylindrical
beads, both long and short and especially the strings of alternating black and white
beads are characteristic of the protodynastic period.0
1 Maclver dates this tomb previous to S. D. 41, solely I believe on type of burial. But graves of his class I are found as late
as the third dynasty.
2 See Petrie in Naqada, p. 44 § 65, for explanation of the manner in which the outside of these beads was polished. See n Hie-
rakonpolis, p. 12 § 31 for bead factory found by Green.
3 Tube beads are represented in a picture in Diospolis v B 101 showing the contents of a tomb of the middle predynastic. In the
text p. 33 they said to be carnelian beads found on the arm of a girl in a “plundered out” tomb. There were possibly several burials
and these beads do not necessarily belong to the other objects found here. The beads, el Amrah, Pl. 7 tomb a 96 are thicker then the
early dynastic beads.