Reisner, George Andrew: Excavations at Kerma (Dongola-Provinz) (Band 2): Parts IV - V (Cambridge, Mass., 1923)

BEADS AND AMULETS

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2. K XV chapel D, Nos. 3, 4, 10:
Two small pots, R. W. VII, and a B. P. jar, were each in a bead net, fitted to the form
of the jar. The beads were set vertically, as in No. 1, above, so that seven vertical rows
of black faience and white shell beads arranged in a zigzag, alternated with six rows of
blue ring-beads strung en echelon. I could not make out just how the contraction at
the top and bottom was obtained, but probably by reducing the number of rows in each
of the vertical bands. There seemed to be two threads through each bead — one




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binding it to the beads below, and one to the beads above. The threading began, of
course, at the bottom and worked up in horizontal lines towards the top, going round
and round the jar.
3. K 453: 25:
A K. W. bottle-jar was in a bead net; lozenges of 3 X 3 white beads in a field of blue
beads. (Fig. 171, 4,)
4. K308:x:
Fragments of a pot-net, perhaps from R. P. VI 5 (R. W. VII was rare in K III). Small
squares of nine blue beads each, set with one diagonal vertical, in a field of white shell
beads. The blue squares were separated from each other on all sides by two rows of
white beads. All beads were strung vertically, as in Nos. 1 and 2. Photo. A 2168,
3/3. Pl. 63, 1, bottom row, third from left.
5. K309:x:
Fragment of a pot-net (?), blue beads only, set in pairs or as above in threes, threaded
en echelon. Strung as above. (Fig. 171, 3.)
6. KXB:64:
Fragment of pot-net (?), blue ring-beads only, threaded together en echelon. From
body F. Photo. A 2168, 1/2. Pl. 63, 1, top row, second from left.