Nine amulets on a string
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
First Millennium BCE (1000 BCE-1 CE)
Faience, flax
Overall: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
Overall: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Overall: 13/16 × 1 × 1/4 in. (2 × 2.5 × 0.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6733
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Personal Symbol: Amulet
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Provenance
Beatrice Braithwaite-Batty (1833-1933); given to the Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, England, 1927; sold to present collection, 1939.
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