Amulet

54-33-6

From: Egypt

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 54-33-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt
Period Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made 305 - 30 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Fish
Description

Oxyrhynchus fish. Engraved necklace and gills and details of the fins; eyes were inlaid; complete with crown, uraeus, sun disk in cow horns; eye for hanging, base.

Height 7.2 cm
Width 12 cm
Depth 2.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Leonard Epstein, 1954

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