Description:
Lower part of a broken Son of Horus amulet (showing waist, thighs and feet of mummiform god, with stitching hole through feet), attached to string of tubular turquoise beads, alternating with small ring beads of buff, brown and pale blue. Amulet originally turquoise, discolored to buff and blackish brown. Beads were probably part of a bead net over a mummy, and the Son of Horus amulet would have been stitched to the bead net or to the mummy wrappings.

Tags:
ancient; archaeology; deaths; tombs; afterlife; religion; rituals; ceremonies; deities; deities; beads; jewelry

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