}
Jeweller
Jewellers worked with a wide range of materials, making necklaces, bracelets and other objects from gold, silver, electrum, semi-precious stones and faience. Semi-precious stones were mined in the Eastern Desert or the Sinai Peninsula. They were shaped into beads or cut into shapes for inlaying in gold or silver jewellery. A bead-maker drilled the hole out first, before shaping and polishing the bead. Scarabs and other amulets were cut in semi-precious stones.