- Museum number
- EA16924
- Description
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Amuletic string: composed of many different materials. The amethyst beads are spherical, short and long truncated convex bicone and one faceted bead of Roman date. The cornelian beads are long truncated convex bicones, spherical, long cylindrical and short barrels, one lenticular bead, one short convex bicone and one elliptical bead. The remaining beads comprise three garnet long barrels, one green feldspar lenticular bead, one turquoise disc bead and one haematite long barrel. There are three drop pendants: two are brown and white zoned agate pebbles, one a roughly tooth-shaped piece of rock crystal. There are two other drop shapes of cornelian which in general resemble snakes' head amulets but have none of the usual details carved upon them. The cornelian amulets are a hippopotamus' head amulet, a claw, flat on both sides, and a leg-with-foot amulet. The scaraboid, completely without detail, is of green feldspar, as is the floral (?) pendant, one of the 'wedjat'-eyes and the hawk amulet. The string is completed by a green translucent serpentine 'wedjat-eye' and a grey steatite offering-table amulet with roughly cut lines representing the sides of the table and a channel on it.
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.60 centimetres (hawk amulet)
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Length: 65 centimetres (whole)
- Curator's comments
- For agate pebbles, cf. R. Engelbach 'Harageh' (London, 1923), pl.LI. 44w. Middle Kingdom.
For hippopotamus head amulets, cf. W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Amulets’ (London, 1914), pl.XL, 237d-o; Earl of Carnarvon & H. Carter, 'Five Years' Exploration at Thebes, 1907-11' (London, 1912), pl.XLV. 2G.
For leg-with-foot amulets, cf. W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Amulets’ (London, 1914), pl.I, 15C; G. Brunton, 'Qau and Badari' II (London, 1927-30), pl.XCIV, 10M6; First Intermediate Period.
For hawk amulets, cf. W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Amulets’ (London, 1914), pl.XLI. 245l-q; R. Engelbach 'Harageh' (London, 1923), pl. X, 30; Earl of Carnarvon & H. Carter, 'Five Years' Exploration at Thebes, 1907-11' (London, 1912), pl.XLVI, 2G; but cf. too G. Brunton, 'Qau and Badari' II (London, 1927-30), pl.XCVII, 45P3: First Intermediate Period.
For 'wedjat'-eye amulets, cf. R. Engelbach 'Harageh' (London, 1923), pl.L. 38A: Middle Kingdom.
For offering-table amulets, cf. W. M. F. Petrie, ‘Amulets’ (London, 1914), pl. V, 68a.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16924
- Registration number
- 1886,0605.15
