Faience Beads
11 faience amulets.
11 amulets representing Isis nursing Horus, seated (2); a dwarf, possibly the god Bes (4) and certainly the god Bes (3); a right hand and the upper part of a papyrus stem. Isis and Horus were associated with rebirth and childbirth and Bes was a household god who protected pregnant women and women in childbirth. These ideas of rebirth were also valid for the rebirth following death, which is why they were probably placed within a grave.
Height: 0.015 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia (1912-13)
Meroitic
Third Intermediate period
Circa
-700
-
Circa
-600
Accession number: E.170.1921
Primary reference Number: 52197
Oldadmincategory: A
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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