Egyptian Amulets and pendants (gold, faience and semi-precious…

Egyptian Amulets and pendants (gold, faience and semi-precious…

Egyptian Amulets and pendants (gold, faience and semi-precious stones)

Top left to right: carnelian leg and hand gold ‘Heh’ eternity sign dating from the Old Kingdom, ca. 2700-2200 BC, red jasper heart, Bes figures of faience, seated child of carnelian, faience ‘wadjet’ eye, dating from the New Kingdom ca. 1550-1080 BC, silver ‘ankh’, hematite headrest, obsidian scarab, double plume of glass, figures of Duamutef and Qebehsenuef and a ‘djed’ pillar, all of faience, dating from the Late Period ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum.