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Glazed beads
A collection of 5 amulets and 1 barrel bead in faience.
A colllection of 5 amulets and 1 bead, all made from faience and part of a group showing Isis nursing Horus and three images of the god Bes or a dwarf. Both deities were associated with nursing, childbirth and pregnancy but were also relevant to rebirth following death. The bead is barrel shaped and also made from faience. They are all from the same grave 857 in the Sanam cemetery.
Height: 0.013 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia (1912-13)
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
BCE
-
Circa
-600
BCE
Accession number: E.145.1921
Primary reference Number: 52162
Oldadmincategory: A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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