Thoughts of Ancient Egypt
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A funerary broad collar made of gold leaf on plaster, carnelian, green felspar, and Egyptian faience. It was found in the burial of a woman named Senebtisi of whom very little is known. She lived at the time of the late 12th Dynasty to early 13th Dynasty (circa 1850-1775 BCE). This piece (08.200.30) is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Photo (edited for size): Public Domain.
"Collars are perhaps the commonest of all the Egyptian forms of personal ornament, and are equally persistent in every period. The actual collars, it is true, are rare in very early graves, but they are constantly represented on statues and on the earliest tomb reliefs that exist, and are clearly objects of familiar and every-day use.
It is probable that the elaborate collar, as we know it, was gradually evolved from a single string of necklace beads, but none of the steps in this evolution are preserved, for the collars on the statues and reliefs before-mentioned are already so familiar as to be represented conventionally.
The rows of beads and pendants are occasionally detailed, but more often they are depicted as mere outlines, or with conventional line patterns, which are quite unrecognizable as beads. Metal and strung bead collars seem to have been the rule up to the Middle Kingdom, but in the [New Kingdom] a new form of collar was introduced, consisting of flowers, seeds, and beads sewn on a papyrus backing."
― Mace, Arthur C. and Herbert E. Winlock, The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht (Reprint), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 1973
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