Egyptian 44
From Furnace To Flame: Egyptian Eye Beads
Beads based on picture from article Between Egypt, Mesopotamia and Scandinavia: Late Bronze Age glass beads found in Denmark.
New research results from glass beads found in Denmark reveal surprising evidence for contact in the 14th–12th centuries BC between Egypt, Mesopotamia and Denmark, indicating a complex and far-reaching trade network. 290 annular glass beads ranging from dark blue to green, white and yellow, along with four polychrome beads, have been found in 14th–12th century burials from Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein in North Germany. Coming from well dated contexts, twenty-three well-preserved Danish glass beads were chosen for analysis.
One of the finds features was a strand of 44 beads found in Denmark that were Made in Egypt. These beads were the inspiration for this set.
My Beads
Blue beads like this turn up throng out my research. They found in my Silk Road Project, and in my Ribe Bead Project. Some times referred to a Non Diagnostic Little Blue Bead. At least in this case and in the Silk Road case the beads origins can be traced back to the fertile crescent using chemical analysis. This fact illustrates that he Glass trade networks of the pre modern world were asstablished early and persisted .
