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the string of beads from a Badarian
tomb, the oldest glazed beads
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some beads found in graves of the
Naqada period
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Examples of faience
and glazed materials in the
Badarian and in the Naqada
period
(click on the pictures)
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the string of beads from a Badarian
tomb, the oldest glazed beads
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some beads found in graves of the
Naqada period
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The earliest known glazed objects are steatite beads. They appear
about 4000 BC in the Badarian culture.
There are only a few other, mostly small, glazed objects from the predynastic
periods.
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