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23<strong>from</strong> Egypt or western Asia. 18Tiny <strong>beads</strong> <strong>of</strong> ostrich eggshell <strong>and</strong> black <strong>and</strong> green<strong>faience</strong> have also been found at Tarxien on Malta. 19This bead category is well-represented in <strong>the</strong> Aegean, <strong>and</strong> 1,600 tiny blue <strong>faience</strong><strong>beads</strong> were found in <strong>the</strong> MMI Vat Room Deposit at Knossos. 20Tiny <strong>beads</strong> arecommonly found in Mycenaean graves, 21 <strong>and</strong> more than 40,000 examples in white,yellow, blue, brown <strong>and</strong> black <strong>faience</strong> were recovered <strong>from</strong> chamber tomb 2 at Dendra. 22Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, <strong>the</strong> variation in size <strong>and</strong> color seen at Uluburun is repeated incontemporary finds <strong>of</strong> tiny <strong>beads</strong> <strong>from</strong> Pylos in Messenia 23 <strong>and</strong> Pylona on Rhodes. 24In addition to regular rounded (division I) <strong>beads</strong>, <strong>the</strong> tiny <strong>beads</strong> at Uluburuninclude a special group known as segmented <strong>beads</strong> (Beck No. XVII.A.1). 25Inv. No. Lot 9463.cN16 LL4Beck No. XVII.A.1.aPerforation IV, VIbDiam. 0.2 cm; length 0.2 cm; diam. <strong>of</strong> perforation 0.1 cm.Small, segmented <strong>faience</strong> bead with two segments (fig. 2.3). Each segment exhibits aconvex pr<strong>of</strong>ile. Light blue in color with a mottled granular surface. Plain, extra-largeperforation.Inv. No. Lot 9463.dN16 LL4Beck No. XVII.A.1.aPerforation IV, VIbDiam. 0.17 cm; length 0.31 cm; diam. <strong>of</strong> perforation 0.1 cm.Small, segmented <strong>faience</strong> bead with three segments (fig. 2.3). Each segment exhibits aconvex pr<strong>of</strong>ile. Blue in color but heavily obscured by yellow staining. Plain, extralargeperforation.18 Peltenburg 1995.19 Murray et al. 1934, 4.20 Panagiotaki 1998, 178.21 Blegen <strong>and</strong> Blegen 1937, 1:311-2, no. 12; Haevernick 1981, 404, no. 8; Wace 1932, 48, no. 6; Xenaki-Sakellariou 1985, 295, no. 31.22 Persson 1931, 106, no. 51.23 Blegen et al. 1973, 91, no. NM. 7877.24 More than 300 such <strong>beads</strong> were found in <strong>the</strong> LH III tombs 1 <strong>and</strong> 2 at Pylona (Karantzali 2001, 73-5,nos. 676 <strong>and</strong> 698).25 Beck 1981, 13-4.

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