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Rectangular, made of turquoise frit beads and coloured beads.
Ancient Egypt, Late Period, 664 to 30 BC.
Height: 53.5 cm – Width: 11.5 cm
(Visible damage and missing sections)

A fragment of purple fabric is included (length: 31 cm)

– Collection of Albert Ceysens (1877–1956), managing director of the Cairo Sugar Company (Egypt), who died there.
– Collection of Suzanne Ceysens (1914–2003), daughter of the above, who left Egypt in 1952 to settle in Belgium
.– Passed down through inheritance to the present day.