Funerary Amulets
Artist
Unknown
CultureEgyptian
DateLate Period, ca. 730-333 B.C.
MediumFaience | Wood
DimensionsOverall: 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number77.866
Not on view
DescriptionFive blue amulets pierced through in order to be threaded. ;
- One scarab with two separate wings (one is missing but obviously used to be stuck on the same support).;
- One jackal-headed figure in a shroud, with long hair, holding a stick in his two hands before him, turned to the right.;
- The same, with a falcon head, turned to the left.;
- Two falcon heads crowned with a sun disk, one turned to the right, the other to the left.;