Bead

Amulet

29-65-471

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 29-65-471
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Locus 65-13:065
Period Middle Kingdom
Date Made 1980 - 1630 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Gold
Description

162 minute, red gold disc beads to which probably belong the following amulets of similarly colored gold: (1) scarab with scarab engraved on base; (2) vulture; (3) wedjat eye.

Probably Middle Kingdom.

Length 0.18 m
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923
Other Number D 354 - Field No SF

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