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British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · jewelry

bead

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Description

Gold necklace of Taweret amulets: these forty-three gold beads and forty-two Taweret amulets are presently strung as a necklace. The Taweret amulets are mould-made and hollow. Sheet gold was presumably hammered against a sunk-relief pattern image of Taweret, and then the material was carefully worked and folded and/or joined together—so carefully in fact that it… View more about description

Connections

Deities Taweret

Cross-references (2)

  • BM-Object Y_EA59418 tier-2
  • BM-Registration 1929,1109.33 tier-2
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