Nile Catfish Pendant
Description
<p>This fish pendant represents a Synodontis Batensoda, more commonly known as the Nile catfish, a species of fish named for its black belly. Often worn at the end of a plait of hair, amulets like this one were used by children and young women to protect against drowning. This fine amulet is made of gold with stone inlays, including a red stone for the right eye and a green stone for the left. Amulets in the form of the Synodontis Batensoda were particularly popular during the Middle Kingdom, when the fish might have been identified with an astronomical constellation.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1072' rel='external'>Nile Catfish Pendant</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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- Walters-AccNum 57.1072 tier-2
- Walters-id 3522 tier-2
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