Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool
Information
Amulet in the shape of Bes from a burial dated to the 22nd - 26th Dynasty.
From tomb 1006 excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society, 1925-26, and given to the East Anglia Egyptian Society in return for their subscription.
CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 56.22.186
- Collection type
- Personal Ornament
- Culture
- Third Intermediate Period
- Date made
- 1069 BC – 664 BC
- Collector
- Egypt Exploration Society
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt: Abydos
- Date collected
- 1926
- Materials
- Egyptian Faience
- Measurements
- Overall: 12 mm x 7 mm
- Credit line
- Purchased from the collections of Norwich Castle Museum
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
- Publications
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