New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Funerary Amulets

Artist Unknown

DateLate Period, ca. 730-333 B.C.

MediumFaience | Wood

DimensionsOverall: 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsEgyptian

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number77.866

Terms

Funerary objects
Blue
Black

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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.;