String of Beads

Amulet

E15798

Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display

From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E15798
Current Location Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display - On Display
Provenience Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Locus 200:20, ca 4.00 above Merenptah in centre trench N. Edge
Period Late Period | Twenty-Sixth Dynasty | Ahmose II
Date Made 664 - 525 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Gold | Silver | Faience
Iconography Harpocrates
Description

Faience beads: ribbed barrels, turquoise with cream and dark brown discs between. Amulet: seated Horus-the-child (Harpocrates) of silver covered with thin sheet of gold.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1916
Other Number M? - Field No SF

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