An Egyptian Predynastic restrung necklace with beads and a central shark tooth.
Badarian period, circa 4000 BCE.
Total L. 28 cm / Tooth 6,5 cm

Provenance
Formerly, private collection of Mr. Odermatt, Switzerland, before 1988.

Formed by stones, limestone, shell, beads and amulets of varia shapes, and centered by a fossilized shark tooth.
For similar fossilized shark tooth see Petrie Museum, LDUCE-UC2540.

Estimate: 1200 - 1400 CHF