Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 56. Egyptian bead necklace, New Kingdom-Late Dynastic Period, c.1550-300 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 56. Egyptian bead necklace, New Kingdom-Late Dynastic Period, c.1550-300 BC
56. Egyptian bead necklace, New Kingdom-Late Dynastic Period, c.1550-300 BC
Faience
Length: 43cm
11543
£ 1,800
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Composed of cobalt blue, green and yellow faience disc-shaped beads, intersperced with flat-backed beads of a seated baboon in profile, representing the god Thoth, a pendant in the center. Restrung...

Provenance

Private collection H.S. (d.2006), London, UK; acquired 1970s-1980s, thence by descent

Literature

For a variant of squatting baboon beads, see W.M.F. Petrie, Amulets (Reprinted London 1994), p.48, pl.XXXVII, fig.306a&g. For an example of the pendant, which seems to be a vessel, compare W.M.F. Petrie, Amulets (Reprinted London 1994), p.20, pl.V, fig.70j

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