amulet
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.692
- Description
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String of thirteen glazed composition amulets; mould-made and covered with a blue-green glaze, much worn on several of the examples.
Five wedjat eyes (a-e), three covered with a white claze or else having lost their surfaces and two smaller examples covered in a blue-green glaze; Bes head with feathers (f); enthroned Isis nursing Horus (g); a heart or Hes-vase (?) (h); two Patoikos spacer-beads (1-j) and a third standing grotesque figure (k); a smaller Bes head (l); a sow (m).
- Production date
- 750BC-300BC
- Curator's comments
- A total of 16 faience amulets is listed in Myres' excavation notebook, including a papyrus-shaped amulet which does not appear to have been kept or registered with this tomb number (though it was sketched) .
For other examples of wedjat pendants and amulets from Amathus, Clerc 1991, 133-9. Also, Clerc et al. 1976, 118-19 for examples from the sanctuary at Kition-Kathari. Lagarce (in Clerc et al. 1976, 167-74) provides a useful overview of the use and significance of Egyptianizing amulets and scarabs on Cyprus which often differ from those found in Egyptian contexts.
Bibliography:
Clerc G. 1991, 'Aegyptiaca', in eds V. Karageorghis et al., La nécrople d'Amathonte Tombes 110-385. V (Nicosia), 1-50.
Clerc G. et al. 1976, Fouilles de Kition. II. Objets égyptiens et égyptisants (Nicosia).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.692
