fishnet

An item at Louvre

A netting, piled on a mounting wire, of bright blue tubular beads arranged in a square, with bands of small red, blue, white beads and alternating bands of rectangles. The netting was finished with a fringe of larger beads held by fringed threads. Some beads measure 1.5 cm (detailed methodical inventory).

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).

Louvre