Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

 

 

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

 

 

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

 

 

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace


Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

J2

Egyptian faience bead and amulet necklace

£450

 

A necklace composed from various faience beads and amulets. The amulets represented include Anubis, Shu, Isis, Ptah and Thoth, and are arranged so that they can be viewed in a radiating pattern when worn.

Egypt, late 2nd and 1st Millennium BC

Fully wearable and re-strung on modern wire with a silver clasp. Several amulets are chipped, the central bust is a fragment from a larger amulet.

Size: 68 cms total length.

Ex. collection: C. R. Stone, UK; acquired around Heliopolis in Egypt during the early 1940's. Mr. Stone was attached to the intelligence division of the Royal Air Force and based in Egypt for a large part of World War II.

footer

Home     .    Join our Mailing list     .     Shop for Antiquities    .     Antiquities Links     .     Gift Vouchers    .     Contact Us     .    ADA

 

All images on this site are the property of Helios Gallery and we ask that you do not re-publish or re-use them

© 1996 - 2012 www.heliosgallery.com®, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

<   >