Dress composed of beads
Faience and turquoise Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC)
The use in daily life of bead dresses in network pattern has been attested from wall representations or feminine statues; only two real dresses have been preserved.
More abundant and better attested are the bead dresses with funerary purpose; they were put on the mummy and they hold divine representations linked to resurrection and protection of the deceased as the winged scarab.
The use in daily life of bead dresses in network pattern has been attested from wall representations or feminine statues; only two real dresses have been preserved.
More abundant and better attested are the bead dresses with funerary purpose; they were put on the mummy and they hold divine representations linked to resurrection and protection of the deceased as the winged scarab.
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