IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 52219 accession number: E.181a.1921 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Faience amulet in the form of double lion. Lions in Nubia and Egypt represented the king and strength. It is possible that here the pair represent a pair of lion cubs. The two appear to look towards each other. From the treasury at Sanam and probably left as a dedication there. object type: Glazed amulet in the form of a double lion. title: amulet LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52219 TECHNIQUES ---------- mouldmade CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 701 - 601 creation date earliest: 701 creation date latest: 601 culture: Meroitic culture: Third Intermediate period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: m value: 0.016 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_181_A_D_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 404 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_181_A_D_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 266 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_181_A_D_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 404 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_181_A_D_1921_20_281_29.jpg height: 133 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_181_A_D_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 340 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_181_A_D_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 224 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_181_A_D_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 340 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_181_A_D_1921_20_282_29.jpg height: 112 pixels width: 250 pixels