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Glazed beads
6 lion head pendants, blue glazed faience
6 faience lion head pendents 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.
Length: 0.01 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
BCE
-
Circa
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.133.1921
Primary reference Number: 52151
Oldadmincategory: B
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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