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.