Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card: 'The remainder of flail is in Cairo Museum'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Found in the Tomb of a Princess and excavated by Jaques de Morgan between the years 1896 to 1899. De Morgan excavated the burials of a number of Princesses at Dahshur, so that it is unclear whether the present piece came from the enclosure of Ammenemes II, Sesostris III or Ammenemes III.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Other)
Beck was an expert on beads, and published a book on them (1928).
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Horace Beck's original catalogue card notes 'MacGreger Collection. Lot 1443'. This suggests that Beck possibly bought this object at the William MacGregor sale held by Sotheby's from June 26th to July 6th, 1922. MacGregor has therefore been added to the Source field as a possible earlier collector.
Event Date 1922
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
String of five carnelian and thirteen faience truncated cone beads from a flail sceptre. Incomplete.
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (References)
Aidan Dodson. (1987). 'The Egyptian Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge'. Gottinger Miszellen, vol. 99. pp. 93-96. p. 95.
Event Date 1987
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson