Amulet

E3989

From: Egypt | Hiw

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E3989
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Hiw
Locus Tomb W 22
Period Middle Kingdom | Twelfth Dynasty
Date Made 1938-1759 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Gold (uncertain) | Electrum
Iconography Fish
Description

Realistic pendant of a Nile fish. Two halves of the body are molded around a core and the fins and suspension loop were set into the core material. Details of the fish are chases into the metal.

Length 3.8 cm
Width 1.6 cm
Depth 1 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egypt Exploration Fund, William Flinders Petrie, 1899
Other Number AES 762 - Other Number

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