¶ … Faience Necklace This necklace was found in the Egyptian tomb. Wealthy Egyptians who died were buried with many of their most precious and/or sentimental life's possession that they wished to take with them to another world (the Afterlife). This necklace was found in one ancient Egyptian tomb and evidently manifested value despite its cheap nature. (Faience was a relatively cheap material) (Andrews, 1981)

The beads are various scintillating colors representing various values of the Afterlife. They were wrapped around the mummy's neck in order to restore breath through the symbolism of these colors. The blue, green, and black are water, sky, vegetation and youth. The White, yellow and red beads meanwhile signify sun, light, fire, and blood. The blue and green beads in this broad collar are supposed to be turquoise and lapis lazuli beads. The Faience is...

The necklace dates to 332-30 BC.
The beads are arranged in a beautiful arc, the whole perfectly designed so as to fit in equal length to one another. The various shades of blue peeking into sky dark blue, melting into lilac blue and then into white, are merged into one another and converged so that one's eye integrates the different shades into one peaceful while. Each cluster is strung of various vertical beads, constituting approximately an inch in length. Each is tied and clumped at the bottom with a tidy clump of small beads that include white, yellow, and red. These resemble a flower. The same range of beads run through the chain at the top looping the clusters at the top too.

The entire chain exudes a dazzling, peaceful impression. Some of these beads may be made of shell. There was another Faience necklace discovered…