String of Beads
Amulet
E15798
Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display
From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E15798 |
| Current Location | Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display - On Display |
| Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
| Locus | 200:20, ca 4.00 above Merenptah in centre trench N. Edge |
| Period | Late Period | Twenty-Sixth Dynasty | Ahmose II |
| Date Made | 664 - 525 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Gold | Silver | Faience |
| Iconography | Harpocrates |
| Description | Faience beads: ribbed barrels, turquoise with cream and dark brown discs between. Amulet: seated Horus-the-child (Harpocrates) of silver covered with thin sheet of gold. |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1916 |
| Other Number | M? - Field No SF |
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