Torque or Metal Collar

 

Torque or Metal Collar

This unusual metal collar, or torque, consists of beads fixed on a copper or bronze hoop. The white beads are alabaster, inlaid with quartz or red-painted glass. The black beads are stone or glass inlaid with gold.

The collar could be adjusted to fit different sized necks.

GOLD

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

Inventary number JE 61939

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15791