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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Egyptian
| | Title: | Beads with an attached amulet of a Son of Horus
| | Date Made: | 1069-332 BCE (Dynasties 21-31)
| | Type: | Adornment
| | Materials: | Turquoise, buff, brown, and pale blue faience
| | Place Made: | Africa; Asia; Egypt
| | Measurements: | L. of strand: 23 5/8 in., 60 cm. Amulet H.: 1 3/4 in., 4.5 cm.; Amulet W. 5/8 in., 1.5 cm.; Amulet D.: 3/16 in., .4 cm.; Max. L. of tubular beads: 7/16 in., 1.1 cm.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2000.486.5.INV
| | Credit Line: | Source and date of acquisition unknown
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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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 Subjects:
Religion; Rites and ceremonies; archaeological objects; Civilization, Ancient; Death; Future life; Gods; Jewelry; Rituals; Tombs Link to share this object record:
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