Nubian lion head amulets or pendants

An image of Jewellery. Amulet. Glazed beads. 6 faience lion head pendants or amulets; green-blue in colour. Each is identical and made from the same mould. It is possible that they represent the god Bes, who takes features from a lion, but they are too stylised to say for certain. found in tomb 1010 in the Sanam cemtery. Production Place: Nubia. Find Spot: Meroe Sudan; grave 1010. Faïence, mouldmade, length 0.01 m, circa 700 B.C. to circa 600 B.C. Meroitic Period, Third Intermediate period.

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Jewellery. Amulet. Glazed beads. 6 faience lion head pendants or amulets; green-blue in colour. Each is identical and made from the same mould. It is possible that they represent the god Bes, who takes features from a lion, but they are too stylised to say for certain. found in tomb 1010 in the Sanam cemtery. Production Place: Nubia. Find Spot: Meroe Sudan; grave 1010. Faïence, mouldmade, length 0.01 m, circa 700 B.C. to circa 600 B.C. Meroitic Period, Third Intermediate period.

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Accession Number: E.133.1921
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 523 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 72.59kB
Exposure time: 1/40
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2015:11:17 10:37:00

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7th Century amulet Ancient Egypt animal animals antiquity beaded beads blue faience Fitz_ANT glazed jewellery lions Meroitic Period mould made moulded Nubian pale blue Sudan Third Intermediate Period

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